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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2018-20552

Tcpreplay before 4.3.1 has a heap-based buffer over-read in packet2tree in tree.c.

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31 Oct 2026, 10:29 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2018-20552

core-osv · Original source

Published 28 Dec 2018, 16:29 UTC

Tcpreplay before 4.3.1 has a heap-based buffer over-read in packet2tree in tree.c.

osv:CVE-2018-20552
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-20552",
  "method": "structured",
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    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
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        }
      ],
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              "repo": "https://github.com/appneta/tcpreplay",
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            "v4.0.5",
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      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:50:24.734224085Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/appneta/tcpreplay/pull/532/commits/6b830a1640ca20528032c89a4fdd8291a4d2d8b2",
        "https://github.com/appneta/tcpreplay/issues/530"
      ],
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 381689,
  "published_at": "2018-12-28T16:29:05.113+00:00"
}