Debian Security Advisory
DSA-478-1 tcpdump -- denial of service
- Date Reported:
- 06 Apr 2004
- Affected Packages:
- tcpdump
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 10003, BugTraq ID 10004, BugTraq ID 10003, BugTraq ID 10004.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2004-0183, CVE-2004-0184. - More information:
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tcpdump, a tool for network monitoring and data acquisition, was found to contain two vulnerabilities whereby tcpdump could be caused to crash through attempts to read from invalid memory locations. This bug is triggered by certain invalid ISAKMP packets.
For the current stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 3.6.2-2.8.
For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 3.7.2-4.
We recommend that you update your tcpdump package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tcpdump/tcpdump_3.6.2-2.8.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tcpdump/tcpdump_3.6.2-2.8.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tcpdump/tcpdump_3.6.2.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tcpdump/tcpdump_3.6.2-2.8.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tcpdump/tcpdump_3.6.2-2.8_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tcpdump/tcpdump_3.6.2-2.8_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tcpdump/tcpdump_3.6.2-2.8_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tcpdump/tcpdump_3.6.2-2.8_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tcpdump/tcpdump_3.6.2-2.8_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tcpdump/tcpdump_3.6.2-2.8_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tcpdump/tcpdump_3.6.2-2.8_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tcpdump/tcpdump_3.6.2-2.8_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tcpdump/tcpdump_3.6.2-2.8_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tcpdump/tcpdump_3.6.2-2.8_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tcpdump/tcpdump_3.6.2-2.8_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.