Debian Security Advisory
DSA-850-1 tcpdump -- infinite loop
- Date Reported:
- 09 Oct 2005
- Affected Packages:
- tcpdump
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-1279.
- More information:
-
"Vade 79" discovered that the BGP dissector in tcpdump, a powerful tool for network monitoring and data acquisition, does not properly handle RT_ROUTING_INFO. A specially crafted BGP packet can cause a denial of service via an infinite loop.
For the old stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 3.6.2-2.9.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 3.8.3-4.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 3.8.3-4.
We recommend that you upgrade your tcpdump package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tcpdump/tcpdump_3.6.2-2.9.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tcpdump/tcpdump_3.6.2-2.9.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_3.6.2-2.9.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tcpdump/tcpdump_3.6.2-2.9_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tcpdump/tcpdump_3.6.2-2.9_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tcpdump/tcpdump_3.6.2-2.9_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tcpdump/tcpdump_3.6.2-2.9_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tcpdump/tcpdump_3.6.2-2.9_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tcpdump/tcpdump_3.6.2-2.9_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tcpdump/tcpdump_3.6.2-2.9_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tcpdump/tcpdump_3.6.2-2.9_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tcpdump/tcpdump_3.6.2-2.9_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tcpdump/tcpdump_3.6.2-2.9_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tcpdump/tcpdump_3.6.2-2.9_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.