What is CVE-2016-6160?

CVE-2016-6160 is a high-severity vulnerability in Broadcom Tcpreplay, classified under CWE-399. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2017-01-23.

How severe is CVE-2016-6160?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Broadcom Tcpreplay

CVE-2016-6160

tcprewrite in tcpreplay before 4.1.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via a large frame, a related issue to CVE-2017-14266.

Published 2017-01-23 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.021 (81.3th percentile), scored 2026-10-02.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 81st percentile — 81.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.021 · newest: 0.021 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Broadcom Tcpreplay

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-399

References

bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi (Mailing List, Issue Tracking)
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/05/3 (mailing-list, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
github.com/appneta/tcpreplay/issues/251 (Patch)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-6160?: CVE-2016-6160 is a high-severity vulnerability in Broadcom Tcpreplay, classified under CWE-399. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2017-01-23.
How severe is CVE-2016-6160?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.