Out-of-bounds read in Tcpreplay - CVE-2018-13112

 

Out-of-bounds read in Tcpreplay - CVE-2018-13112

Published: July 3, 2018 / Updated: June 1, 2021


Vulnerability identifier: #VU36985
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-13112
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 a boundary error in get_l2len in common/get.c in Tcpreplay. A remote attacker can perform a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read and application crash) via crafted packets, as demonstrated by tcpprep.


Affected software

Tcpreplay
Fedora
tcpreplay

How to mitigate CVE-2018-13112

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

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