tcprewrite in tcpreplay before 4.1.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via a large frame, a related issue to CVE-2017-14266.

This update for tcpreplay to version 4.1.2 fixes the following issues :

  - CVE-2016-6160: Increase max packet size to 65549 to     prevent segmentation faults (boo#987846)

Security fix for CVE-2016-6160.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The tcprewrite program, part of the tcpreplay suite, does not check the size of the frames it processes. Huge frames may trigger a segmentation fault, and such frames occur when caputuring packets on interfaces with an MTU of or close to 65536. For example, the loopback interface lo of the Linux kernel has such a value.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 3.4.3-2+wheezy2.

We recommend that you upgrade your tcpreplay packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
95591	openSUSE Security Update : tcpreplay (openSUSE-2016-1408)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
92390	Fedora 24 : tcpreplay (2016-904ed1d231)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
92387	Fedora 23 : tcpreplay (2016-72dae8ea7e)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
91977	Debian DLA-544-1 : tcpreplay security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high

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