Red Hat Linux 7.x RHSA-2003:174-01 Critical: tcpdump Privilege Drop

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. Bug IDs fixed ( for more info):

88881 - CAN-2003-0145 RADUIS tcpdump vulnerability 90208 - CAN-2003-0194 tcpdump didn't drop root to pcap user like promised

6. RPMs required:

Red Hat Linux 7.1:

SRPMS:

i386:

Red Hat Linux 7.2:

SRPMS:

i386:

ia64:

Red Hat Linux 7.3:

SRPMS:

i386:

Red Hat Linux 8.0:

SRPMS:

i386:

Red Hat Linux 9:

SRPMS:

i386:

7. Verification:

MD5 sum Package Name fac820eb58d79fc58d30bff1fd11f33d 7.1/en/os/SRPMS/tcpdump-3.6.3-17.7.1.3.src.rpm 3eadddac8cdf6ae0b14e8016f651e1f0 7.1/en/os/i386/tcpdump-3.6.3-17.7.1.3.i386.rpm 5f5c14bd0dfdaa5b0d5dbc0fb70da395 7.2/en/os/SRPMS/tcpdump-3.6.3-17.7.2.3.src.rpm c48e86db37c7f767ec8931ebb54fc0ae 7.2/en/os/i386/tcpdump-3.6.3-17.7.2.3.i386.rpm 39da71bfef8520c979db8cf21c4f6781 7.2/en/os/ia64/tcpdump-3.6.3-17.7.2.3.ia64.rpm f9de6824ac351207bd105978eefed89d 7.3/en/os/SRPMS/tcpdump-3.6.3-17.7.3.3.src.rpm 8d54631bf99d61090f0752f29ef51f8f 7.3/en/os/i386/tcpdump-3.6.3-17.7.3.3.i386.rpm 67a36a50ec50a8aa2d32b2462fae653d 8.0/en/os/SRPMS/tcpdump-3.6.3-17.8.0.3.src.rpm afba9bea894090b9c179979403347629 8.0/en/os/i386/tcpdump-3.6.3-17.8.0.3.i386.rpm 1b1b577c9ebfe84f735a6498140e1e7f 9/en/os/SRPMS/tcpdump-3.7.2-1.9.1.src.rpm 6cff8bf6b2425c361eec70ba3017d82b 9/en/os/i386/tcpdump-3.7.2-1.9.1.i386.rpm

These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key is available at All Red Hat products

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