CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2026-6554

Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')

Published: Sep 05, 2026 | Modified: Oct 22, 2026
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
7.5 IMPORTANT
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

libpcap BPF interpreter treats the offset in the ja L BPF instruction as a signed integer to implement looping via backward jumps, but it does not limit the number of loop iterations. A crafted filter program or the protochain primitive used on a crafted network packet can cause the interpreter to loop infinitely.

Weakness

The product contains an iteration or loop with an exit condition that cannot be reached, i.e., an infinite loop.

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