Fedora 24: tcpreplay Security Update 2017-936a79ee30
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