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Debian 2.2 Advisory: Tcpdump Remote Exploit Critical Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey November 20, 2000
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To address a critical tcpdump vulnerability in Debian, analyze the buffer overflow issue and promptly apply updates.
Several buffer overflows were found which allow an attacker to make tcpdump crash.

Summary


During internal source code auditing by FreeBSD several buffer overflows
were found which allow an attacker to make tcpdump crash by sending
carefully crafted packets to a network that is being monitored with
tcpdump.

This has been fixed in version 3.4a6-4.2.

wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.

Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 alias potato
architectures.

Source archives:

MD5 checksum: 62a63a125250c0d636a6658910e0955b

MD5 checksum: 733e906052de894eddce7fa27437b1b2

MD5 checksum: 8133ffe2af22d66c70419f48a42ac675

Alpha architecture:

MD5 checksum: 7f89d984dbe54116c5aa34aae93e5357

ARM architecture:

MD5 checksum: 69dd2892ef04adf55f74b80828c26f5e

Intel ia32 architecture:

MD5 checksum: 906068aaeebbcb5f50ea1b2dd1aec4c0

Motorola 680x0 architecture:

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