Use After Free Affecting tcpreplay package, versions <4.3.1-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.24% (64th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN12-TCPREPLAY-1560840
  • published17 Oct 2018
  • disclosed17 Oct 2018

Introduced: 17 Oct 2018

CVE-2018-18408  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:12 tcpreplay to version 4.3.1-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream tcpreplay package and not the tcpreplay package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:12 relevant fixed versions and status.

A use-after-free was discovered in the tcpbridge binary of Tcpreplay 4.3.0 beta1. The issue gets triggered in the function post_args() at tcpbridge.c, causing a denial of service or possibly unspecified other impact.