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Debian: DSA-850-1 High: TcpDump Infinite Loop Denial Of Service

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Calendar Grey October 9, 2005
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Enhance your tcpdump utility in Debian to rectify a denial of service vulnerability stemming from failures in handling BGP packets.
Updated package.

Summary


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.


Upgrade Instructions
- --------------------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

Size/MD5 checksum: 587 fac8be69ffc0fc9e98f720df652c3b8b
Size/MD5 checksum: 14189 09abe4d2c22c16aad175edf0e2d1e4a2
Size/MD5 checksum: 380635 6bc8da35f9eed4e675bfdf04ce312248

Alpha architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: 214820 9c3c9...

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