Mageia alert MGASA-2016-0247 (tcpreplay)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2016-0247: Updated tcpreplay packages fixes CVE-2016-6160 
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Fri, 8 Jul 2016 21:51:26 +0200
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MGASA-2016-0247 - Updated tcpreplay packages fixes CVE-2016-6160

Publication date: 08 Jul 2016
URL: http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0247.html
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:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18870
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/05/3
- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6160

SRPMS:
- 5/core/tcpreplay-3.4.4-6.1.mga5