Debian Security Advisory

tcpdump -- remote denial of service

Date Reported:

20 Nov 2000

Affected Packages:

tcpdump

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2000-1026.

More information:

During internal source code auditing by FreeBSD several buffer overflows were found which allow an attacker to make tcpdump crash by sending carefully crafted packets to a network that is being monitored with tcpdump. This has been fixed in version 3.4a6-4.2.

Fixed in:

Debian 2.2 (potato)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/tcpdump_3.4a6-4.2.diff.gz; http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/tcpdump_3.4a6-4.2.dsc; http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/tcpdump_3.4a6.orig.tar.gz
alpha:: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-alpha/tcpdump_3.4a6-4.2_alpha.deb
arm:: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-arm/tcpdump_3.4a6-4.2_arm.deb
i386:: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/tcpdump_3.4a6-4.2_i386.deb
m68k:: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-m68k/tcpdump_3.4a6-4.2_m68k.deb
powerpc:: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-powerpc/tcpdump_3.4a6-4.2_powerpc.deb
sparc:: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/tcpdump_3.4a6-4.2_sparc.deb