Debian Security Advisory
DSA-206-1 tcpdump -- denial of service
- Date Reported:
- 10 Dec 2002
- Affected Packages:
- tcpdump
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 6213.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2002-1350. - More information:
-
The BGP decoding routines for tcpdump used incorrect bounds checking when copying data. This could be abused by introducing malicious traffic on a sniffed network for a denial of service attack against tcpdump, or possibly even remote code execution.
This has been fixed in version 3.6.2-2.2.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tcpdump/tcpdump_3.6.2-2.2.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tcpdump/tcpdump_3.6.2.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tcpdump/tcpdump_3.6.2-2.2.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tcpdump/tcpdump_3.6.2.orig.tar.gz
- alpha (DEC Alpha):
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tcpdump/tcpdump_3.6.2-2.2_alpha.deb
- arm (ARM):
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tcpdump/tcpdump_3.6.2-2.2_arm.deb
- hppa (HP PA RISC):
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tcpdump/tcpdump_3.6.2-2.2_hppa.deb
- i386 (Intel ia32):
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tcpdump/tcpdump_3.6.2-2.2_i386.deb
- ia64 (Intel ia64):
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tcpdump/tcpdump_3.6.2-2.2_ia64.deb
- m68k (Motorola Mc680x0):
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tcpdump/tcpdump_3.6.2-2.2_m68k.deb
- mips (MIPS (Big Endian)):
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tcpdump/tcpdump_3.6.2-2.2_mips.deb
- powerpc (PowerPC):
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tcpdump/tcpdump_3.6.2-2.2_powerpc.deb
- s390 (IBM S/390):
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tcpdump/tcpdump_3.6.2-2.2_s390.deb
- sparc (Sun SPARC/UltraSPARC):
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tcpdump/tcpdump_3.6.2-2.2_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.