MGASA-2020-0437 - Updated tcpreplay package fixes security vulnerabilities

Publication date: 23 Nov 2020
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2020-0437.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 7
CVE: CVE-2020-24265,
     CVE-2020-24266

An issue was discovered in tcpreplay tcpprep v4.3.3. There is a heap buffer
overflow vulnerability in MemcmpInterceptorCommon() that can make tcpprep
crash and cause a denial of service (CVE-2020-24265).

An issue was discovered in tcpreplay tcpprep v4.3.3. There is a heap buffer
overflow vulnerability in get_l2len() that can make tcpprep crash and cause a
denial of service (CVE-2020-24266).

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27489
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/M623ONZKOZL5Y7XQNHKXEPV76XYCPXQM/
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-24265
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-24266

SRPMS:
- 7/core/tcpreplay-4.3.3-1.1.mga7

Mageia 2020-0437: tcpreplay security update

An issue was discovered in tcpreplay tcpprep v4.3.3

Summary

An issue was discovered in tcpreplay tcpprep v4.3.3. There is a heap buffer overflow vulnerability in MemcmpInterceptorCommon() that can make tcpprep crash and cause a denial of service (CVE-2020-24265).
An issue was discovered in tcpreplay tcpprep v4.3.3. There is a heap buffer overflow vulnerability in get_l2len() that can make tcpprep crash and cause a denial of service (CVE-2020-24266).

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27489

- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/M623ONZKOZL5Y7XQNHKXEPV76XYCPXQM/

- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-24265

- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-24266

Resolution

MGASA-2020-0437 - Updated tcpreplay package fixes security vulnerabilities

SRPMS

- 7/core/tcpreplay-4.3.3-1.1.mga7

Severity
Publication date: 23 Nov 2020
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2020-0437.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2020-24265, CVE-2020-24266

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