USN-141-1: tcpdump vulnerability

21 June 2005

tcpdump vulnerability

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Details

It was discovered that certain invalid BGP packets triggered an
infinite loop in tcpdump, which caused tcpdump to stop working. This
could be abused by a remote attacker to bypass tcpdump analysis of
network traffic.

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 5.04
  • tcpdump -
Ubuntu 4.10
  • tcpdump -

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

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