Vulnerabilities / CVE-2018-18408

critical

CVE-2018-18408

A use-after-free was discovered in the tcpbridge binary of Tcpreplay 4 ...

Published Modified CWE 416
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD. Rated lower by Ubuntu (medium).

Description

A use-after-free was discovered in the tcpbridge binary of Tcpreplay 4.3.0 beta1. The issue gets triggered in the function post_args() at tcpbridge.c, causing a denial of service or possibly unspecified other impact.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
debian 11tcpreplay4.3.1-1
debian 12tcpreplay4.3.1-1
debian 13tcpreplay4.3.1-1
debian 14tcpreplay4.3.1-1
debian 8tcpreplayno fix listed
debian 9tcpreplayno fix listed
echotcpreplay4.3.1-1
ubuntu 16.04-ESMtcpreplay3.4.4-2+deb8u1ubuntu0.1~esm2
ubuntu 18.04-ESMtcpreplay4.2.6-1ubuntu0.1~esm2

References

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