🛡️ CVE-2023-4256
🟡 CVSS 5.5 — Medium ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-415 NVD
5.5
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Within tcpreplay's tcprewrite, a double free vulnerability has been identified in the tcpedit_dlt_cleanup() function within plugins/dlt_plugins.c. This vulnerability can be exploited by supplying a specifically crafted file to the tcprewrite binary. This flaw enables a local attacker to initiate a Denial of Service (DoS) attack.

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 5.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE CWE-415
Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes
Source NVD
Published 2023-12-21
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2024-11-21
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
extra-packages-for-enterprise-linux — —
fedora — —
tcpreplay — —

References

Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2255212
Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory https://github.com/appneta/tcpreplay/issues/813
Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2255212
Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory https://github.com/appneta/tcpreplay/issues/813

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