Monthly Archives: March 2017

Avast

Secure Wi-Fi is important. But secure IoT is vital.

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After years of using hotspots, many of us who connect our PCs via Wi-Fi away from home have learned the difference between secured and unsecured networks – and are now smarter and safer when we get online at the café or airport. But our connection habits are changing. In 2016, average smartphone usage grew 38 percent, and more mobile phone traffic – nearly 60 percent – was handled by Wi-Fi hotspots than by cellular networks, putting our phones at risk, too. Add the proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, and today’s Wi-Fi threats can outpace even the tech-savviest among us. Because we have greater mobility and connectivity, hackers are motivated to take advantage of our need for both.

Fedora

tcpreplay-4.1.2-3.el5

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Patch CVE-2017-6429.

Tcpcapinfo utility of Tcpreplay has a buffer overflow vulnerability associated with parsing a crafted pcap file. This occurs in the src/tcpcapinfo.c file when capture has a packet that is too large to handle.

References:

http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2017/Mar/22

Upstream bug:

https://github.com/appneta/tcpreplay/issues/278

Fedora

tcpreplay-4.1.2-3.fc24

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Patch CVE-2017-6429.

Tcpcapinfo utility of Tcpreplay has a buffer overflow vulnerability associated with parsing a crafted pcap file. This occurs in the src/tcpcapinfo.c file when capture has a packet that is too large to handle.

References:

http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2017/Mar/22

Upstream bug:

https://github.com/appneta/tcpreplay/issues/278

Fedora

tcpreplay-4.1.2-3.fc25

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Patch CVE-2017-6429.

Tcpcapinfo utility of Tcpreplay has a buffer overflow vulnerability associated with parsing a crafted pcap file. This occurs in the src/tcpcapinfo.c file when capture has a packet that is too large to handle.

References:

http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2017/Mar/22

Upstream bug:

https://github.com/appneta/tcpreplay/issues/278