{"id":75212,"date":"2025-12-31T04:45:54","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T01:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2025-11961-oobr-and-oobw-in-pcap_ether_aton-in-libpcap\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T04:45:54","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T01:15:54","slug":"cve-2025-11961-oobr-and-oobw-in-pcap_ether_aton-in-libpcap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2025-11961-oobr-and-oobw-in-pcap_ether_aton-in-libpcap\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2025-11961 &#8211; OOBR and OOBW in pcap_ether_aton() in libpcap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID : CVE-2025-11961<\/p>\n<p>Published :  Dec. 31, 2025, 1:15 a.m. | 1\u00a0hour, 8\u00a0minutes ago<\/p>\n<p>Description : pcap_ether_aton() is an auxiliary function in libpcap, it takes a string argument and returns a fixed-size allocated buffer.  The string argument must be a well-formed MAC-48 address in one of the supported formats, but this requirement has been poorly documented.  If an application calls the function with an argument that deviates from the expected format, the function can read data beyond the end of the provided string and write data beyond the end of the allocated buffer.<\/p>\n<p>Severity: 1.9 | LOW<\/p>\n<p>Visit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID : CVE-2025-11961 Published : Dec. 31, 2025, 1:15 a.m. | 1\u00a0hour, 8\u00a0minutes ago Description : pcap_ether_aton() is an auxiliary function in libpcap, it takes a string argument and returns a fixed-size allocated buffer. The string argument must be a well-formed MAC-48 address in one of the supported formats, but this requirement has been &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}