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
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tcpdump/tcpdump_3.8.3-5sarge2.diff.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.