CVE-2020-12740

medium
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
5.5

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-12740

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-202007-3

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed4.3.3-1
debian debianbookwormfixed4.3.3-1
debian debianbullseyefixed4.3.3-1
debian debianforkyfixed4.3.3-1
debian debiansidfixed4.3.3-1
debian debiantrixiefixed4.3.3-1

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.