Out-of-bounds Read Affecting tcpreplay package, versions <3.4.4-2+deb8u1ubuntu0.1~esm1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.42% (71st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1604-TCPREPLAY-1190267
  • published22 Mar 2026
  • disclosed3 Oct 2018

Introduced: 3 Oct 2018

CVE-2018-17974  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:16.04 tcpreplay to version 3.4.4-2+deb8u1ubuntu0.1~esm1 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 Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:16.04 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in Tcpreplay 4.3.0 beta1. A heap-based buffer over-read was triggered in the function dlt_en10mb_encode() of the file plugins/dlt_en10mb/en10mb.c, due to inappropriate values in the function memmove(). The length (pktlen + ctx -> l2len) can be larger than source value (packet + ctx->l2len) because the function fails to ensure the length of a packet is valid. This leads to Denial of Service.