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Fedora 25 : tcpreplay (2017-dc1828d4f9)

high Nessus Plugin ID 97764

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Patch CVE-2017-6429.

Tcpcapinfo utility of Tcpreplay has a buffer overflow vulnerability associated with parsing a crafted pcap file. This occurs in the src/tcpcapinfo.c file when capture has a packet that is too large to handle.

References :

http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2017/Mar/22

Upstream bug :

https://github.com/appneta/tcpreplay/issues/278

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Solution

Update the affected tcpreplay package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-dc1828d4f9

https://github.com/appneta/tcpreplay/issues/278

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 97764

File Name: fedora_2017-dc1828d4f9.nasl

Version: 3.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/16/2017

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:25, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:tcpreplay

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 3/15/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/15/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-6429