Bug 1429520 (CVE-2017-6429)

Summary: CVE-2017-6429 tcpreplay: Buffer overflow in Tcpcapinfo utility
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Andrej Nemec <anemec>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-03-06 14:17:05 UTC
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

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/appneta/tcpreplay/commit/d689d14dbcd768c028eab2fb378d849e543dcfe9

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-03-06 14:17:37 UTC
Created tcpreplay tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1429521]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1429522]

Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-08 03:08:29 UTC
This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.