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Debian: DSA 854-1 tcpdump Critical DoS Infinite Loop Fix

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Calendar Grey October 9, 2005
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Upgrade tcpdump on Debian to address the infinite loop vulnerability from Security Advisory DSA 854-1 to secure your system from denial of service risks
Updated package.

Summary


For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 3.8.3-5sarge1.

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 3.1 alias sarge

Size/MD5 checksum: 666 8a61a856f03b483ec3c74affa09e8bb5
Size/MD5 checksum: 11493 b2976be14da25de46cf57a95f36739da
Size/MD5 checksum: 567116 30645001f4b97019677cad88d3811904

Alpha architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: 301288 afbeb130b92fe734031bd60d5819f615

AMD64 architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum...

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