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Fedora 25: TCPreplay 4.1.2 Moderate: Buffer Overflow in Tcpcapinfo

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Calendar Grey March 15, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
A critical update for Tcpreplay resolves a buffer overflow vulnerability affecting Fedora 25. Immediate upgrade is advised to protect against potential security threats.
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

Name: tcpreplay
Product: Fedora 25
Version: 4.1.2
Release: 3.fc25
Summary: Replay captured network traffic

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