# CVE-2018-17974: An issue was discovered in Tcpreplay 4.3.0 beta1.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2018-10-03 · Updated: 2024-08-05

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

An issue was discovered in Tcpreplay 4.3.0 beta1. A heap-based buffer over-read was triggered in the function dlt_en10mb_encode() of the file plugins/dlt_en10mb/en10mb.c, due to inappropriate values in the function memmove(). The length (pktlen + ctx -> l2len) can be larger than source value (packet + ctx->l2len) because the function fails to ensure the length of a packet is valid. This leads to Denial of Service.

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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/appneta/tcpreplay/issues/486
- https://github.com/SegfaultMasters/covering360/tree/master/tcpreplay

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