Out-of-bounds read in Tcpreplay - CVE-2018-18407
Published: October 17, 2018 / Updated: June 1, 2021
Vulnerability identifier: #VU36496
CSH Severity: Medium
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-2018-18407
CWE-ID: CWE-125
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
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.
Affected software
Tcpreplay
Fedora
tcpreplay
Fedora
tcpreplay
How to mitigate CVE-2018-18407
Install update from vendor's website.
Tcpreplay - update to 4.3.0
tcpreplay - addressed in versions 4.3.1-1.el7, 4.3.1-1.fc28, 4.3.1-1.fc29, 4.3.2-1.el6, 4.3.2-1.el7, 4.3.2-1.fc28, 4.3.2-1.fc29, 4.3.2-1.fc30
tcpreplay - addressed in versions 4.3.1-1.el7, 4.3.1-1.fc28, 4.3.1-1.fc29, 4.3.2-1.el6, 4.3.2-1.el7, 4.3.2-1.fc28, 4.3.2-1.fc29, 4.3.2-1.fc30
External References
- https://github.com/appneta/tcpreplay/issues/488
- https://github.com/SegfaultMasters/covering360/blob/master/tcpreplay/README.md#user-content-heap-overflow-in-csum_replace4
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4V3SADKXUSHWTVAPU3WLXBDEQUHRA6ZO/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MLPY6W7Z7G6PF2JN4LXXHCACYLD4RBG6/
Related Security Bulletins
- Multiple vulnerabilities in AppNeta Tcpreplay
- Fedora 29 update for tcpreplay
- Fedora 28 update for tcpreplay
- Fedora EPEL 7 update for tcpreplay
- Fedora EPEL 7 update for tcpreplay
- Fedora 30 update for tcpreplay
- Fedora EPEL 6 update for tcpreplay
- Fedora 29 update for tcpreplay
- Fedora 28 update for tcpreplay