CVE intelligence

CVE-2024-8006

Vulnerability intelligence

Published Aug 31, 2024Sources checked Nov 11, 2026

4.4MEDIUMCVSS out of 10

What this means

Review the available evidence

CVE-2024-8006 and is rated Medium severity with a CVSS score of 4.4. It is not in the current CISA KEV record we collected. That does not prove exploitation has not occurred.

What to do next

Remediation and response

Microsoft Security Response Center guidance

Vendor revision: Aug 12, 2026

Vendor remediation details

CBL-Mariner Releases

Vendor-listed releases

1.10.1-3
7.95-2
1.10.5-1
7.93-3

CISA KEVNot listedBased on the latest collected catalog

EPSS0.2%Estimated 30-day exploitation probability

Ransomware useNot markedCISA KEV ransomware field

Threat actors0Source-linked actor relationships

Overview

What is CVE-2024-8006?

Remote packet capture support is disabled by default in libpcap. When a user builds libpcap with remote packet capture support enabled, one of the functions that become available is pcap_findalldevs_ex().

One of the function arguments can be a filesystem path, which normally means a directory with input data files. When the specified path cannot be used as a directory, the function receives NULL from opendir(), but does not check the return value and passes the NULL value to readdir(), which causes a NULL pointer derefence.

Source: NVD