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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3193-1 tcpdump -- security update

Date Reported:

17 Mar 2015

Affected Packages:

tcpdump

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2015-0261, CVE-2015-2153, CVE-2015-2154, CVE-2015-2155.

More information:

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in tcpdump, a command-line network traffic analyzer. These vulnerabilities might result in denial of service (application crash) or, potentially, execution of arbitrary code.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 4.3.0-1+deb7u2.

For the upcoming stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 4.6.2-4.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 4.6.2-4.

We recommend that you upgrade your tcpdump packages.