First published: Wed Oct 17 2018(Updated: )
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.
Credit: cve@mitre.org
Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
---|---|---|
Broadcom Tcpreplay | =4.3.0-beta1 | |
Fedoraproject Fedora | =28 | |
Fedoraproject Fedora | =29 |
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CVE-2018-18407 is a heap-based buffer over-read vulnerability in the tcpreplay-edit binary of Tcpreplay 4.3.0 beta1.
CVE-2018-18407 causes a denial of service in Tcpreplay 4.3.0 beta1 during the incremental checksum operation.
CVE-2018-18407 affects Tcpreplay 4.3.0 beta1, Fedora 28, and Fedora 29.
CVE-2018-18407 has a severity score of 5.5, which is categorized as medium.
It is recommended to upgrade Tcpreplay to a version that is not affected by CVE-2018-18407.