Reachable Assertion in Tcpreplay - CVE-2021-45387

 

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

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

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