[SECURITY] [DSA 425-1] New tcpdump packages fix multiple vulnerabilities

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

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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

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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

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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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For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: [email protected]
Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/&lt;pkg&gt;
George Bakos and Jonathan Heusser