Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.53082
Category:	Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Title:	Ubuntu USN-141-1 (tcpdump)
Summary:	Ubuntu USN-141-1 (tcpdump)
Description:	The remote host is missing an update to tcpdump announced via advisory USN-141-1. A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases: Ubuntu 4.10 (Warty Warthog) Ubuntu 5.04 (Hoary Hedgehog) The following packages are affected: tcpdump 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. Solution: The problem can be corrected by upgrading the affected package to version 3.8.3-3ubuntu0.3 (for Ubuntu 4.10), or 3.8.3-3ubuntu0.4 (for Ubuntu 5.04). In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes. http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=USN-141-1 Risk factor : Medium
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2005-1267 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=159208 Debian Security Information: DSA-854 (Google Search) http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-854 http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2005-June/msg00007.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/430292/100/0/threaded http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-505.html http://www.trustix.org/errata/2005/0028/ BugTraq ID: 13906 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13906 http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11148 http://secunia.com/advisories/15634/ http://secunia.com/advisories/17118
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