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Fedora 25 : tcpreplay (2017-5e945de883)

high Nessus Plugin ID 99144

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Here is what is fixed in this release :

 - Fix reporting of rates < 1Mbps (#348)

 - Option --unique-ip not working properly (#346)

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Features and fixes include :

 - MAC rewriting capabilities by Pedro Arthur (#313)

 - Fix several issues identified by Coverity (#305)

 - Packet distortion --fuzz-seed option by Gabriel Ganne (#302)

 - Add --unique-ip-loops option to modify IPs every few loops (#296)

 - Netmap startup delay increase (#290)

 - tcpcapinfo buffer overflow vulnerablily (#278)

 - Update git-clone instructions by Kyle McDonald (#277)

 - Allow fractions for --pps option (#270)

 - Print per-loop stats with --stats=0 (#269)

 - Add protection against packet drift by Guillaume Scott (#268)

 - Print flow stats periodically with --stats output (#262)

 - Include Travis-CI build support by Ilya Shipitsin (#264) (#285)

 - tcpreplay won't replay all packets in a pcap file with
 --netmap (#255)

 - First and last packet times in --stats output (#239)

 - Switch to wire speed after 30 minutes at 6 Gbps (#210)

 - tcprewrite fix checksum properly for fragmented packets (#190)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
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Solution

Update the affected tcpreplay package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-5e945de883

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 99144

File Name: fedora_2017-5e945de883.nasl

Version: 3.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/3/2017

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: 4/1/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/15/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-6429