Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1272-1 tcpdump -- buffer overflow

Date Reported:
22 Mar 2007
Affected Packages:
tcpdump
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2007-1218.
More information:

Moritz Jodeit discovered an off-by-one buffer overflow in tcpdump, a powerful tool for network monitoring and data acquisition, which allows denial of service.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 3.8.3-5sarge2.

For the upcoming stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in version 3.9.5-2.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 3.9.5-2.

We recommend that you upgrade your tcpdump package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tcpdump/tcpdump_3.8.3-5sarge2.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tcpdump/tcpdump_3.8.3-5sarge2.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tcpdump/tcpdump_3.8.3.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tcpdump/tcpdump_3.8.3-5sarge2_alpha.deb
AMD64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tcpdump/tcpdump_3.8.3-5sarge2_amd64.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tcpdump/tcpdump_3.8.3-5sarge2_arm.deb
HPPA:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tcpdump/tcpdump_3.8.3-5sarge2_hppa.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tcpdump/tcpdump_3.8.3-5sarge2_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tcpdump/tcpdump_3.8.3-5sarge2_ia64.deb
Motorola 680x0:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tcpdump/tcpdump_3.8.3-5sarge2_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tcpdump/tcpdump_3.8.3-5sarge2_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tcpdump/tcpdump_3.8.3-5sarge2_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tcpdump/tcpdump_3.8.3-5sarge2_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tcpdump/tcpdump_3.8.3-5sarge2_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tcpdump/tcpdump_3.8.3-5sarge2_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.