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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS: USN-4252-1 Moderate: tcpdump Denial Of Service

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Calendar Grey January 27, 2020
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
The Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4252-1 addresses vulnerabilities found in tcpdump and provides necessary updates for the impacted versions.
Several security issues were fixed in tcpdump.

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in tcpdump.

Software Description:

- tcpdump: command-line network traffic analyzer

Details:

Multiple security issues were discovered in tcpdump. A remote attacker

could use these issues to cause tcpdump to crash, resulting in a denial of

service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service tcpdump remote code execution update instructions ubuntu

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
  tcpdump                         4.9.3-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
  tcpdump                         4.9.3-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

This update uses a new upstream release, which includes additional bug
fixes. In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary
changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4252-1

CVE-2017-16808, CVE-2018-10103, CVE-2018-10105, CVE-2018-14461,

CVE-2018-14462, CVE-2018-14463, CVE-2018-14464, CVE-2018-14465,

CVE-2018-14466, CVE-2018-14467, CVE-2018-14468, CVE-2018-14469,

CVE-2018-14470, CVE-2018-14879, CVE-2018-14880, CVE-2018-14881,

CVE-2018-14882, CVE-2018-16227, CVE-2018-16228, CVE-2018-16229,

CVE-2018-16230, CVE-2018-16300, CVE-2018-16451, CVE-2018-16452,

CVE-2018-19519, CVE-2019-1010220, CVE-2019-15166, CVE-2019-15167

January 27, 2020

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service tcpdump remote code execution update instructions ubuntu

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tcpdump/4.9.3-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tcpdump/4.9.3-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

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