Ubuntu Security Notice USN-141-1
21st June, 2005
tcpdump vulnerability
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 5.04
- Ubuntu 4.10
Details
It was discovered that certain invalid BGP packets triggered an
infinite loop in tcpdump, which caused tcpdump to stop working. This
could be abused by a remote attacker to bypass tcpdump analysis of
network traffic.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version:
- Ubuntu 5.04:
- tcpdump
- Ubuntu 4.10:
- tcpdump
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
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