A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in tcpdump libpcap up to 1.8.x/1.9.x/1.10.4. Affected is the function sock_initaddress. The manipulation leads to double free.

This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2023-7256. The attack needs to be approached locally. There is no exploit available.

It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.