Debian DLA-544-1 : tcpreplay security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 91977

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

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.

Solution

Upgrade the affected tcpreplay package.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 91977

File Name: debian_DLA-544.nasl

Version: 2.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 7/8/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:tcpreplay, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/7/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-6160

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