Gentoo: GLSA-200708-15 Critical Severity Tcpdump Buffer Overflow
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July 29, 2007
A vulnerability has been discovered in tcpdump, allowing for the execution of arbitrary code, possibly with root privileges.
Summary
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200707-14
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: High
Title: tcpdump: Integer overflow
Date: July 28, 2007
Bugs: #184815
ID: 200707-14
Synopsis
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A vulnerability has been discovered in tcpdump, allowing for the
execution of arbitrary code, possibly with root privileges.
Background
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tcpdump is a tool for capturing and inspecting network traffic.
Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 net-analyzer/tcpdump < 3.9.5-r3 >= 3.9.5-r3
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mu-b from Digital Labs discovered that the return value of a snprintf()
call is not properly checked before being used. This could lead to an
integer overflow.
Impact
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