Debian alert: tcpdump

Posted by dave on Jan 16, 2004 5:03 PM EDT
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Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in tcpdump, a tool for inspecting network traffic. If a vulnerable version of tcpdump attempted to examine a maliciously constructed packet, a number of buffer overflows could be exploited to crash tcpdump, or potentially execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the tcpdump process.

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- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 425-1 [E-mail:security@debian.org] http://www.debian.org/security/ Matt Zimmerman January 16th, 2004 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Package : tcpdump Vulnerability : multiple vulnerabilities Problem-Type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE Ids : CAN-2003-1029 CAN-2003-0989 CAN-2004-0055 CAN-2004-0057

Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in tcpdump, a tool for inspecting network traffic. If a vulnerable version of tcpdump attempted to examine a maliciously constructed packet, a number of buffer overflows could be exploited to crash tcpdump, or potentially execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the tcpdump process.

CAN-2003-1029 - infinite loop and memory consumption in processing L2TP packets

CAN-2003-0989, CAN-2004-0057 - infinite loops in processing ISAKMP packets.

CAN-2004-0055 - segmentation fault caused by a RADIUS attribute with a large length value

For the current stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 3.6.2-2.7.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you update your tcpdump package.

Upgrade Instructions - --------------------

wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given below:

apt-get update will update the internal database apt-get upgrade will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration.

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody - --------------------------------

Source archives:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tcpdump/tcpdump_3.6.2-2.7.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 587 fc666bc6c77312ce601782871bde22a1 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tcpdump/tcpdump_3.6.2-2.7.diff.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 12091 8453e6103104e509ab52adb0ed1bbd37 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tcpdump/tcpdump_3.6.2.orig.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 380635 6bc8da35f9eed4e675bfdf04ce312248

Alpha architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tcpdump/tcpdump_3.6.2-2.7_alpha.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 214088 90f363cde67deec9e56bf827bf1f9e8e

ARM architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tcpdump/tcpdump_3.6.2-2.7_arm.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 180028 e0fb2e07c499544aafbec0bbf1f853c8

Intel IA-32 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tcpdump/tcpdump_3.6.2-2.7_i386.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 169896 d6e159ea45a8663a31bdcbecc83ac3fa

Intel IA-64 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tcpdump/tcpdump_3.6.2-2.7_ia64.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 247376 34ca33e36d7c85c8401e1fc04ae0b295

HP Precision architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tcpdump/tcpdump_3.6.2-2.7_hppa.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 196120 1edd4cc6f1a5ec98aa3210893b26870b

Motorola 680x0 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tcpdump/tcpdump_3.6.2-2.7_m68k.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 157854 b798473fd9ec1d4c1d0ca1d34450e061

Big endian MIPS architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tcpdump/tcpdump_3.6.2-2.7_mips.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 189302 bc5fc61607359b857996af3b7cd1759f

Little endian MIPS architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tcpdump/tcpdump_3.6.2-2.4_mipsel.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 193268 961b6b8d7e70ae97722759b8049445b1

PowerPC architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tcpdump/tcpdump_3.6.2-2.7_powerpc.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 177184 8ac3abd34f1131c0cd2fadc21b92deae

IBM S/390 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tcpdump/tcpdump_3.6.2-2.7_s390.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 174738 533d1cea1cb982cf252900ee8f2d0604

Sun Sparc architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tcpdump/tcpdump_3.6.2-2.7_sparc.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 179666 a4e039dc8f12be45b144bd731e1d713c

These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next revision.

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