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Red Hat Linux 9: RHSA-2004:007-01 Critical: Tcpdump Denial of Service

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Calendar Grey January 14, 2004
Dist Redhat Esm H88
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Crafted remote packets can result in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code as the 'pcap' user.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

Please note that this update is available via Red Hat Network. To use Red Hat Network, launch the Red Hat Update Agent with the following command:

up2date

This will start an interactive process that will result in the appropriate RPMs being upgraded on your system.

5. RPMs required:

Red Hat Linux 9:

SRPMS:


i386:






6. Verification:

MD5 sum Package Name

226b13743f96ea03b3c3a17e74114b1b 9/en/os/SRPMS/tcpdump-3.7.2-7.9.1.src.rpm fe3af157c00676c7021f793a5afd1f62 9/en/os/i386/arpwatch-2.1a11-7.9.1.i386.rpm 384fee9a20392740cf83cced8eb41a3c 9/en/os/i386/libpcap-0.7.2-7.9.1.i386.rpm c5eb264f2f18ddffd07e700d752c63ba 9/en/os/i386/tcpdump-3.7.2-7.9.1.i386.rpm

These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key is available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key

You can verify each package with the following command:

rpm --checksig -v

If you only wish to verify that each package has not been corrupted or tampered with, examine only the md5sum with the following command:

md5sum


Summary

References

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=tcpdump-workrs&m=107325073018070 CVE -CVE-2003-0989

Package List


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2004:007-01
Issue date: 2004-01-07
Updated on: 2004-01-14
Product: Red Hat Linux
Keywords: tcpdump arpwatch buffer overflow
Cross references:
Obsoletes: RHSA-2003:174

Topic

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Linux 9 - i386

Bugs Fixed

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