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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-5455-1 iperf3 -- security update

Date Reported:

17 Jul 2023

Affected Packages:

iperf3

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 1040830.

More information:

A memory allocation issue was found in iperf3, the Internet Protocol bandwidth measuring tool, that could cause denial of service when encontering certain invalid length value in TCP packet.

For the oldstable distribution (bullseye), this problem has been fixed in version 3.9-1+deb11u1.

For the stable distribution (bookworm), this problem has been fixed in version 3.12-1+deb12u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your iperf3 packages.

For the detailed security status of iperf3 please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/iperf3