CVE-2025-11964OOBW in utf_16le_to_utf_8_truncated() in libpcap
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On Windows only, if libpcap needs to convert a Windows error message to UTF-8 and the message includes characters that UTF-8 represents using 4 bytes, utf_16le_to_utf_8_truncated() can write data beyond the end of the provided buffer.
- CVSS
- 1.9 LOW (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-787
- Known exploited
- Not in CISA's KEV catalog
- EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
- Not loaded for this CVE
- Assigned by
- Tcpdump
- NVD analysis
- Deferred
- Record last updated
- Jan 2, 2026
- First seen by InfoSec Signals
- Oct 9, 2026
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