USN-5205-1

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    USN-5205-1

    Published: 4 Oct 2022Last Modified: 25 Jun 2026

    Summary: tcpreplay vulnerabilities

    Details: It was discovered that Tcpreplay incorrectly handled certain specially crafted packet capture input when processed by tcpprep. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 ESM. (CVE-2018-13112) It was discovered that Tcpreplay incorrectly handled certain specially crafted packet capture input. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or expose sensitive information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 ESM and Ubuntu 18.04 ESM. (CVE-2018-17580, CVE-2018-17582) It was discovered that Tcpreplay incorrectly handled certain specially crafted packet capture input. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 ESM and Ubuntu 18.04 ESM. (CVE-2018-17974, CVE-2018-18407) It was discovered that a use-after-free existed in Tcpreplay in the tcpbridge binary. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 ESM and Ubuntu 18.04 ESM. (CVE-2018-18408) It was discovered that Tcpreplay incorrectly handled certain specially crafted packet capture input. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 ESM, Ubuntu 18.04 ESM and Ubuntu 20.04 ESM. (CVE-2018-20552, CVE-2018-20553) It was discovered that a heap-based buffer over-read that existed in Tcpreplay caused an application crash when tcprewrite or tcpreplay-edit received specially crafted packet capture input. An attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service or to expose sensitive information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 ESM and Ubuntu 20.04 ESM. (CVE-2020-12740) It was discovered that Tcpreplay incorrectly handled certain specially crafted packet capture input when processed by tcpprep. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 ESM and Ubuntu 20.04 ESM. (CVE-2020-24265, CVE-2020-24266) It was discovered that Tcpreplay incorrectly handled certain specially crafted packet capture input when processed by tcprewrite. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 ESM. (CVE-2022-27416) It was discovered that Tcpreplay did not properly manage memory under certain circumstances. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted packet capture file, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Tcpreplay crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly read sensitive data. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 ESM, Ubuntu 20.04 ESM and Ubuntu 22.04 ESM. (CVE-2022-28487)

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: tcpreplay

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/tcpreplay?arch=source&distro=esm-apps%2Fxenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -3.4.4-2+deb8u1ubuntu0.1~esm2

    Affected versions

    3.4.4-2
    3.4.4-2+deb8u1build0.16.04.1
    3.4.4-2+deb8u1ubuntu0.1~esm1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High