Buffer overflow in Tcpreplay - CVE-2016-6160

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Buffer overflow in Tcpreplay - CVE-2016-6160

Published: June 1, 2021


Vulnerability identifier: #VU53699
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-6160
CWE-ID: CWE-119
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 tcprewrite in tcpreplay when processing network traffic. A remote attacker can send traffic data with a large frame, trigger segmentation fault and crash the application.


Affected software

Tcpreplay
Fedora
tcpreplay

How to mitigate CVE-2016-6160

Install updates from vendor's website.

Tcpreplay - update to 4.1.2
tcpreplay - addressed in versions 4.1.1-2.el5, 4.1.1-2.el6, 4.1.1-2.el7, 4.1.1-2.fc22, 4.1.1-2.fc23, 4.1.1-2.fc24

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