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Fedora 42 tcpreplay Important Heap Overflow Fix 2025-9e9e727412

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Fedora Security Alert regarding tcpreplay version 4.5.2, rectifying heap overflow vulnerabilities to enhance system protection.
Mostly bugfix release

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:

Mostly bugfix release. More info here: https://github.com/appneta/tcpreplay/releases/tag/v4.5.2

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Topics Covered

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Change Log

* Fri Aug 29 2025 Bojan Smojver - 4.5.2-1 - Update to 4.5.2 * Fri Jul 25 2025 Fedora Release Engineering - 4.5.1-7 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_43_Mass_Rebuild

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2388758 - CVE-2025-9019 tcpreplay: tcpreplay Heap Overflow Vulnerability [epel-10] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2388758 [ 2 ] Bug #2388759 - CVE-2025-9019 tcpreplay: tcpreplay Heap Overflow Vulnerability [epel-8] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2388759 [ 3 ] Bug #2388760 - CVE-2025-9019 tcpreplay: tcpreplay Heap Overflow Vulnerability [epel-9] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2388760 [ 4 ] Bug #2388763 - CVE-2025-9019 tcpreplay: tcpreplay Heap Overflow Vulnerability [fedora-41] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2388763 [ 5 ] Bug #2388764 - CVE-2025-9019 tcpreplay: tcpreplay Heap Overflow Vulnerability [fedora-42] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2388764 [ 6 ] Bug #2389866 - CVE-2025-9157 tcpreplay: appneta tcpreplay tcprewrite edit_packet.c untrunc_packet use after free [epel-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2389866 [ 7 ] Bug...

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Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2025-9e9e727412' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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Name: tcpreplay
Product: Fedora 42
Version: 4.5.2
Release: 1.fc42
URL: http://tcpreplay.appneta.com/
Summary: Replay captured network traffic

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