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Slackware 14.2: SSA:2017-041-04 Moderate Tcpdump DoS Fix

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Calendar Grey February 10, 2017
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Recent tcpdump updates for Slackware address vulnerabilities tied to denial of service incidents. It's also necessary to upgrade the libpcap package concurrently.
New tcpdump packages are available for Slackware 13.37, 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix security issues

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/tcpdump-4.9.0-i586-1_slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. Fixed bugs which allow an attacker to crash tcpdump (denial of service). For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-7922 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-7923 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-7924 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-7925 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-7926 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-7927 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-7928 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-7929 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-7930 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-7931 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-7932 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-7933 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-7934 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-7935 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-7936

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate denial of service update tcpdump slackware software package

Where Find New Packages

Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab (https://osuosl.org/) for donating FTP and rsync hosting to the Slackware project! :-)
Also see the "Get Slack" section on http://www.slackware.com/ for additional mirror sites near you.
Updated package for Slackware 13.37:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 13.37:
Updated package for Slackware 14.0:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.0:
Updated package for Slackware 14.1:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.1:
Updated package for Slackware 14.2:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.2:
Updated package for Slackware -current:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 13.37 package: 9511f62c56fca52c1a5e7e3c019d13f1 tcpdump-4.9.0-i486-1_slack13.37.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.37 package: 363eedb14f568d59285421ab73854543 tcpdump-4.9.0-x86_64-1_slack13.37.txz
Slackware 14.0 package: e4a3e6529f2d183e64abec02b6336fc1 tcpdump-4.9.0-i486-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.0 package: 4025510be6f69f299f2d2775a4eed86e tcpdump-4.9.0-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware 14.1 package: b693f072d9ce8e1e2f542e05c049ac8b tcpdump-4.9.0-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.1 package: 76109f2cf611d5a040db9d5d04628cae tcpdump-4.9.0-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware 14.2 package: a7c745161f5c4e96bc149941893b1a94 tcpdump-4.9.0-i586-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.2 package: e36f1d88a2cd63e2aa1771d589fc53de tcpdump-4.9.0-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware -current package: c60c97421c742cf02b64535593162f0f n/tcpdump-4.9.0-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: 22ec2ccd2a28f965d8ce53788d0dfdd4 n/tcpdump-4.9.0-x86_64-1.txz

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg tcpdump-4.9.0-i586-1_slack14.2.txz NOTE: These updates also require the updated libpcap package: # upgradepkg libpcap-1.8.1-i586-1_slack14.2.txz

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