Trustix alert: tcpdump

Posted by dave on Jan 15, 2004 7:12 AM EDT
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A problem in tcpdump was discovered, where it was possible to crash the program by sending carefully crafted packets on the network.

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- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Trustix Secure Linux Security Advisory #2004-0004

Package name: tcpdump Summary: remote crashing bug Date: 2004-01-05 Affected versions: Trustix 1.5, 2.0

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package description: Tcpdump is a command-line tool for monitoring network traffic. Tcpdump can capture and display the packet headers on a particular network interface or on all interfaces. Tcpdump can display all of the packet headers, or just the ones that match particular criteria.

Problem description: A problem in tcpdump was discovered, where it was possible to crash the program by sending carefully crafted packets on the network.

Action: We recommend that all systems with this package installed be upgraded. Please note that if you do not need the functionality provided by this package, you may want to remove it from your system.

Location: All Trustix updates are available from

About Trustix Secure Linux: Trustix Secure Linux is a small Linux distribution for servers. With focus on security and stability, the system is painlessly kept safe and up to date from day one using swup, the automated software updater.

Automatic updates: Users of the SWUP tool can enjoy having updates automatically installed using 'swup --upgrade'.

Public testing: Most updates for Trustix are made available for public testing some time before release. If you want to contribute by testing the various packages in the testing tree, please feel free to share your findings on the tsl-discuss mailinglist. The testing tree is located at

You may also use swup for public testing of updates: site { class = 0 location = "http://tsldev.trustix.org/cloud/rdfs/latest.rdf" regexp = ".*" }

Questions? Check out our mailing lists:

Verification: This advisory along with all Trustix packages are signed with the TSL sign key. This key is available from:

The advisory itself is available from the errata pages at , and or directly at

MD5sums of the packages: - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Trustix Security Team

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