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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2017-936a79ee30
2017-03-16 16:26:07.687754
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Name        : tcpreplay
Product     : Fedora 24
Version     : 4.1.2
Release     : 3.fc24
URL         : http://tcpreplay.appneta.com/
Summary     : Replay captured network traffic
Description :
Tcpreplay is a tool to replay captured network traffic. Currently, tcpreplay
supports pcap (tcpdump) and snoop capture formats. Also included, is tcpprep
a tool to pre-process capture files to allow increased performance under
certain conditions as well as capinfo which provides basic information about
capture files.

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Update Information:

Patch CVE-2017-6429.  Tcpcapinfo utility of Tcpreplay has a buffer overflow
vulnerability associated with parsing a crafted pcap file. This occurs in the
src/tcpcapinfo.c file when capture has a packet that is too large to handle.
References:  https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2017/Mar/22  Upstream bug:
https://github.com/appneta/tcpreplay/issues/278
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1429521 - CVE-2017-6429 tcpreplay: Buffer overflow in Tcpcapinfo utility [epel-all]
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1429521
  [ 2 ] Bug #1429522 - CVE-2017-6429 tcpreplay: Buffer overflow in Tcpcapinfo utility [fedora-all]
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1429522
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade tcpreplay' at the command line.
For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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https://fedoraproject.org/security/
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Fedora 24: tcpreplay Security Update 2017-936a79ee30

March 16, 2017
Patch CVE-2017-6429

Summary

Tcpreplay is a tool to replay captured network traffic. Currently, tcpreplay

supports pcap (tcpdump) and snoop capture formats. Also included, is tcpprep

a tool to pre-process capture files to allow increased performance under

certain conditions as well as capinfo which provides basic information about

capture files.

Update Information:

Patch CVE-2017-6429. Tcpcapinfo utility of Tcpreplay has a buffer overflow vulnerability associated with parsing a crafted pcap file. This occurs in the src/tcpcapinfo.c file when capture has a packet that is too large to handle.

Change Log

References

https://github.com/appneta/tcpreplay/issues/278 [ 1 ] Bug #1429521 - CVE-2017-6429 tcpreplay: Buffer overflow in Tcpcapinfo utility [epel-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1429521 [ 2 ] Bug #1429522 - CVE-2017-6429 tcpreplay: Buffer overflow in Tcpcapinfo utility [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1429522

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade tcpreplay' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

Severity
Name : tcpreplay
Product : Fedora 24
Version : 4.1.2
Release : 3.fc24
URL : http://tcpreplay.appneta.com/
Summary : Replay captured network traffic

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