From: Jaipaul Cheernam <[email protected]>

NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-6554
Upstream-commit: 
https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/libpcap/commit/ff3c83475ac303c6b681c52ad0b6e14795a8e0ce
Signed-off-by: Jaipaul Cheernam <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Yoann Congal <[email protected]>
---
 .../libpcap/libpcap/05-CVE-2026-6554.patch    | 94 +++++++++++++++++++
 .../libpcap/libpcap_1.10.6.bb                 |  1 +
 2 files changed, 95 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 
meta/recipes-connectivity/libpcap/libpcap/05-CVE-2026-6554.patch

diff --git a/meta/recipes-connectivity/libpcap/libpcap/05-CVE-2026-6554.patch 
b/meta/recipes-connectivity/libpcap/libpcap/05-CVE-2026-6554.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..208225105d5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-connectivity/libpcap/libpcap/05-CVE-2026-6554.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,94 @@
+From ee37e79521d28a04b09f5c37b835ae7955c15e75 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Denis Ovsienko <[email protected]>
+Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2026 13:34:33 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] CVE-2026-6554: Limit "ja L" looping in pcap_offline_filter().
+
+This vulnerability has been discovered by Kaixuan LI.
+
+The current revision of pcapint_filter_with_aux_data() assumes that any
+"ja L" instruction in a filter program does not jump to itself or to a
+prior instruction that is guaranteed to reach the same "ja L" again.
+This holds for programs that have been generated by libpcap.
+
+However, this does not necessarily hold for programs that come from an
+external source via pcap_offline_filter() or [deprecated] bpf_filter().
+If the interpreter executes such a program, upon reaching such an
+instruction it will begin looping infinitely.
+
+To mitigate this problem, in pcapint_filter_with_aux_data() enforce a
+hard-coded limit on the number of backward jumps per packet.  Ibid., and
+in pcapint_validate_filter() as well, reject the only immediately
+detectable case of an infinite loop.
+
+(backported from commit 63c005c25aeabf1404968add49fc885da3e127e0)
+
+(cherry picked from commit ff3c83475ac303c6b681c52ad0b6e14795a8e0ce)
+
+Upstream-Status: Backport 
[https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/libpcap/commit/ff3c83475ac303c6b681c52ad0b6e14795a8e0ce]
+CVE: CVE-2026-6554
+
+Notes on backporting to 1.10.6:
+ - The stray BPF_S_ANC_* enum removed upstream in 1.10.7 (commit ff47ba55) is
+   still present in 1.10.6, so the new MAX_BACKWARD_JUMPS define is added
+   alongside it instead of replacing it.
+ - The upstream CHANGES/changelog hunk is not backported.
+
+Signed-off-by: Jaipaul Cheernam <[email protected]>
+---
+diff --git a/bpf_filter.c b/bpf_filter.c
+index 0178aae5..bc6d149f 100644
+--- a/bpf_filter.c
++++ b/bpf_filter.c
+@@ -70,6 +70,8 @@ enum {
+         BPF_S_ANC_VLAN_TAG_PRESENT,
+ };
+ 
++#define MAX_BACKWARD_JUMPS 64U
++
+ /*
+  * Kernel BPF implementations tend to define BPF_MAXINSNS to 512 or 4096, the
+  * userland interpreter in libpcap is meant to support much longer filter
+@@ -144,6 +146,7 @@ pcapint_filter_with_aux_data(const struct bpf_insn *pc, 
const u_int proglen,
+       A = 0;
+       X = 0;
+       const struct bpf_insn *pc0 = pc;
++      unsigned backward_jumps = 0;
+       --pc;
+       for (;;) {
+               ++pc;
+@@ -318,6 +321,17 @@ DIAG_ON_DEFAULT_ONLY_SWITCH
+                        */
+                       if ((bpf_u_int32)(pc - pc0) + 1 + pc->k >= proglen)
+                               return 0;
++                      /*
++                       * Terminate the program if this is a non-forward jump
++                       * and is:
++                       * - a guaranteed infinite loop because it jumps to
++                       *   itself (exactly the same as in the validator), or
++                       * - a backward jump after many enough backward jumps
++                       *   already made for this packet.
++                       */
++                      if ((bpf_int32)pc->k < 0 && ((bpf_int32)pc->k == -1 ||
++                          backward_jumps++ >= MAX_BACKWARD_JUMPS))
++                              return 0;
+                       /*
+                        * XXX - we currently implement "ip6 protochain"
+                        * with backward jumps, so sign-extend pc->k.
+@@ -605,6 +619,17 @@ pcapint_validate_filter(const struct bpf_insn *f, int len)
+                                */
+                               if (from + p->k >= (u_int)len)
+                                       return 0;
++                              /*
++                               * The only type of infinite loop that can be
++                               * detected in this function is a "ja L" that
++                               * jumps to itself.  For this only k == -1
++                               * needs to be tested because the check above
++                               * has already rejected all other values that
++                               * would wrap the pointer equivalently on
++                               * 32-bit architectures.
++                               */
++                              if ((bpf_int32)p->k == -1)
++                                      return 0;
+                               break;
+                       case BPF_JEQ:
+                       case BPF_JGT:
diff --git a/meta/recipes-connectivity/libpcap/libpcap_1.10.6.bb 
b/meta/recipes-connectivity/libpcap/libpcap_1.10.6.bb
index 258a15f5bac..6ca75117e17 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-connectivity/libpcap/libpcap_1.10.6.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-connectivity/libpcap/libpcap_1.10.6.bb
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ SRC_URI = "https://www.tcpdump.org/release/${BP}.tar.xz \
           file://02-CVE-2026-31912.patch \
           file://03-CVE-2026-31911.patch \
           file://04-CVE-2026-6244.patch \
+          file://05-CVE-2026-6554.patch \
           "
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = 
"ec97d1206bdd19cb6bdd043eaa9f0037aa732262ec68e070fd7c7b5f834d5dfc"
 
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