| Name | CVE-2025-9019 |
| Description | A vulnerability has been found in tcpreplay 4.5.1. This vulnerability affects the function mask_cidr6 of the file cidr.c of the component tcpprep. The manipulation leads to heap-based buffer overflow. The attack can be initiated remotely. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The exploitation appears to be difficult. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The researcher is able to reproduce this with the latest official release 4.5.1 and the current master branch. The code maintainer cannot reproduce this for 4.5.2-beta1. In his reply the maintainer explains that "[i]n that case, this is a duplicate that was fixed in 4.5.2." |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 1111316 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| tcpreplay (PTS) | bullseye | 4.3.3-2 | vulnerable |
| bookworm | 4.4.3-1 | vulnerable |
| trixie | 4.5.1-1 | vulnerable |
| forky, sid | 4.5.2-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| tcpreplay | source | (unstable) | 4.5.2-1 | | | 1111316 |
Notes
[trixie] - tcpreplay <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[bookworm] - tcpreplay <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[bullseye] - tcpreplay <postponed> (Minor issue; can be fixed in next update)
https://github.com/appneta/tcpreplay/issues/958
https://github.com/appneta/tcpreplay/issues/959