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Fedora 22: 2015-4804 Critical: Tcpdump DoS Security Fix

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Calendar Grey March 31, 2015
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The latest update for tcpdump in Fedora 22 resolves significant vulnerabilities and improves the efficiency of network traffic analysis. Get it installed today.
Rebase to 4.7.3 (#1201573)

Summary

Tcpdump is a command-line tool for monitoring network traffic.

Tcpdump can capture and display the packet headers on a particular

network interface or on all interfaces. Tcpdump can display all of

the packet headers, or just the ones that match particular criteria.

Install tcpdump if you need a program to monitor network traffic.

Update Information:

Rebase to 4.7.3 (#1201573). Contains security fix for CVE-2015-0261, CVE-2015-2154, CVE-2015-2153, CVE-2015-2155.

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Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1201792 - CVE-2015-0261 tcpdump: IPv6 mobility printer mobility_opt_print() typecastimg/signedness error https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1201792 [ 2 ] Bug #1201795 - CVE-2015-2153 tcpdump: tcp printer rpki_rtr_pdu_print() missing length check https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1201795 [ 3 ] Bug #1201797 - CVE-2015-2154 tcpdump: ethernet printer osi_print_cksum() missing sanity checks out-of-bounds read https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1201797

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update tcpdump' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: tcpdump
Product: Fedora 22
Version: 4.7.3
Release: 1.fc22
URL: https://www.tcpdump.org/
Summary: A network traffic monitoring tool

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