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CVE-2026-31911

medium CVSS 5.5 EPSS 0.1%

libpcap BPF interpreter calls abort() if it encounters a BPF instruction that has an invalid opcode. In particular uncommon use cases a crafted filter program can terminate the OS process.

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Software versions checked with the free lookup that CVE-2026-31911 applies to, and the release that fixes it where the sources name one.

At a glance

Severity
Medium
CVSS base score
5.5 out of 10
Known exploited
Not in CISA's catalogue of exploited vulnerabilities
EPSS
0.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 1% of scored vulnerabilities
Weakness
CWE-617
Published
2026-09-05

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