SB2018101730 - Multiple vulnerabilities in AppNeta Tcpreplay

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SB2018101730 - Multiple vulnerabilities in AppNeta Tcpreplay

Published: October 17, 2018 Updated: August 8, 2020

Security Bulletin ID SB2018101730
Severity
High
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 2
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Code execution

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.


1) Out-of-bounds read (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-18407)

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

A heap-based buffer over-read was discovered in the tcpreplay-edit binary of Tcpreplay 4.3.0 beta1, during the incremental checksum operation. The issue gets triggered in the function csum_replace4() in incremental_checksum.h, causing a denial of service.


2) Use-after-free (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-18408)

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code.

A use-after-free was discovered in the tcpbridge binary of Tcpreplay 4.3.0 beta1. The issue gets triggered in the function post_args() at tcpbridge.c, causing a denial of service or possibly unspecified other impact.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References