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CVE-2020-12740

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.1 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2020-05-08 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

tcprewrite in Tcpreplay through 4.3.2 has a heap-based buffer over-read during a get_c operation. The issue is being triggered in the function get_ipv6_next() at common/get.c.

Affected products

• appneta tcpreplay: through 4.3.2
• Fedoraproject Fedora: 31, 32

References

• https://github.com/appneta/tcpreplay/issues/576
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4YAT4AGTHQKB74ETOQPJMV67TSDIAPOC/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UOSEIQ3D2OONCJEVMGC2TYBC2QX4E5EJ/
• https://github.com/appneta/tcpreplay/issues/576
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4YAT4AGTHQKB74ETOQPJMV67TSDIAPOC/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UOSEIQ3D2OONCJEVMGC2TYBC2QX4E5EJ/

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