Reachable Assertion in Tcpreplay - CVE-2021-45387
Published: October 18, 2022
Vulnerability identifier: #VU68396
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-2021-45387
CWE-ID: CWE-617
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 reachable assertion within the add_tree_ipv4() function in tree.c. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Affected software
Tcpreplay
Gentoo Linux
net-analyzer/tcpreplay
Gentoo Linux
net-analyzer/tcpreplay
How to mitigate CVE-2021-45387
Install update from vendor's website.
Tcpreplay - update to 4.4.0
net-analyzer/tcpreplay - update to 4.4.2
net-analyzer/tcpreplay - update to 4.4.2