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Heap-based Buffer Overflow

CVE-2022-37048

High
7.8/10

Summary

The component tcprewrite in Tcpreplay through v4.4.1 was discovered to contain a heap-based buffer overflow in "get_l2len_protocol" at "common/get.c:344". NOTE: this is different from CVE-2022-27941.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • REQUIRED
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • HIGH

CWE-122 - Heap-based Buffer Overflow

A heap overflow condition is a buffer overflow, where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, generally meaning that the buffer was allocated using a routine such as malloc().

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  • Published