Out-of-bounds read in Tcpreplay - CVE-2018-20552
Published: January 14, 2019
Vulnerability identifier: #VU16968
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 6.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-20552
CWE-ID: CWE-125
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to heap-based buffer over-read in packet2tree in tree.c. A remote attacker can perform a denial of service attack.
Affected software
Tcpreplay
How to mitigate CVE-2018-20552
Install update from vendor's website.
Tcpreplay - update to 4.3.1