[SECURITY] Fedora 24 Update: tcpreplay-4.1.2-3.fc24
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2017-936a79ee30
2017-03-16 16:26:07.687754
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Name : tcpreplay
Product : Fedora 24
Version : 4.1.2
Release : 3.fc24
URL : http://tcpreplay.appneta.com/
Summary : Replay captured network traffic
Description :
Tcpreplay is a tool to replay captured network traffic. Currently, tcpreplay
supports pcap (tcpdump) and snoop capture formats. Also included, is tcpprep
a tool to pre-process capture files to allow increased performance under
certain conditions as well as capinfo which provides basic information about
capture files.
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Update Information:
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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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1429521 - CVE-2017-6429 tcpreplay: Buffer overflow in Tcpcapinfo utility
[epel-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1429521
[ 2 ] Bug #1429522 - CVE-2017-6429 tcpreplay: Buffer overflow in Tcpcapinfo utility
[fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1429522
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade tcpreplay' at the command line.
For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label
All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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