Out-of-bounds Read The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package tcpreplay  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU2010-TCPREPLAY-1029897
  • published1 Nov 2020
  • disclosed8 May 2020

Introduced: 8 May 2020

CVE-2020-12740  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:20.10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream tcpreplay package and not the tcpreplay package as distributed by Ubuntu.

tcprewrite in Tcpreplay through 4.3.2 has a heap-based buffer over-read during a get_c operation. The issue is being triggered in the function get_ipv6_next() at common/get.c.