Updated tcpreplay packages fixes CVE-2016-6160
Publication date: 08 Jul 2016Modification date: 08 Jul 2016
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 5
CVE: CVE-2016-6160
Description
Updated tcpreplay package fixes security vulnerability: 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 they occur on interfaces with an MTU of or close to 65536. For example, the loopback interface lo of the Linux kernel has such a value (CVE-2016-6160).
References
SRPMS
5/core
- tcpreplay-3.4.4-6.1.mga5