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Fedora 44 tcpreplay 4.6.0 Update Security Advisory 2026

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Tcpreplay is a tool to replay captured network traffic. Currently, tcpreplay

supports pcap (tcpdump) and snoop capture formats. Also included, is tcpprep

a tool to pre-process capture files to allow increased performance under

certain conditions as well as capinfo which provides basic information

Release notes:

* Tue Jul 28 2026 Bojan Smojver - 4.6.0-2 - Add -pthreads for EPEL8/9 * Tue Jul 28 2026 Bojan Smojver - 4.6.0-1 - Update to 4.6.0 - Add -devel and -static for headers, pkgconfig file and static library * Fri Jul 24 2026 Bojan Smojver - 4.5.5-1 - Update to 4.5.5 * Thu Jul 23 2026 Bojan Smojver - 4.5.4-1 - Update to 4.5.4 * Mon Jul 20 2026 Bojan Smojver - 4.5.3-1 - Update to 4.5.3 * Fri Jul 17 2026 Fedora Release Engineering - 4.5.2-3 - Rebuilt for

Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2026-7bf4deefef 2026-08-06 17:15:39.889588+00:00 Name : tcpreplay Product : Fedora 44 Version : 4.6.0 Release : 2.fc44 URL : Summary : Replay captured network traffic Description : Tcpreplay is a tool to replay captured network traffic. Currently, tcpreplay supports pcap (tcpdump) and snoop capture formats. Also included, is tcpprep a tool to pre-process capture files to allow increased performance under certain conditions as well as capinfo which provides basic information capture files.

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2026-7bf4deefef' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

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Fedora tcpreplay 4.6.0 Update Addresses Security Vulnerabilities On August 6, 2026, Fedora released updates for tcpreplay version 4.6.0 across Fedora 43 and 44. The updates include enhancements and fixes for replaying captured network traffic, which supports pcap and snoop formats. The updates were issued by Bojan Smojver and include improvements such as adding pthreads for EPEL8/9 and updates to previous versions. Users are advised to audit Linux privileges to mitigate potential compromise and escalation risks. The updates can be installed using the 'dnf' package manager. Specific details about vulnerabilities or exploits were not disclosed in the articles, indicating that the updates may be routine maintenance rather than addressing critical security flaws. 2 sources 25

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