Debian: DSA-206-1 Moderate: Tcpdump Denial of Service Risk

Package : tcpdump
Problem type : incorrect bounds checking
Debian-specific: no

The BGP decoding routines for tcpdump used incorrect bounds checking
when copying data. This could be abused by introducing malicious traffic
on a sniffed network for a denial of service attack against tcpdump,
or possibly even remote code execution.

This has been fixed in version 3.6.2-2.2.


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