Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.53330
Category:	Debian Local Security Checks
Title:	Debian Security Advisory DSA 255-1 (tcpdump)
Summary:	The remote host is missing an update to tcpdump;announced via advisory DSA 255-1.
Description:	Summary: The remote host is missing an update to tcpdump announced via advisory DSA 255-1. Vulnerability Insight: Andrew Griffiths and iDEFENSE Labs discovered a problem in tcpdump, a powerful tool for network monitoring and data acquisition. An attacker is able to send a specially crafted network packet which causes tcpdump to enter an infinite loop. In addition to the above problem the tcpdump developers discovered a potential infinite loop when parsing malformed BGP packets. They also discovered a buffer overflow that can be exploited with certain malformed NFS packets. For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 3.6.2-2.3. For the old stable distribution (potato) does not seem to be affected by this problem. For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 3.7.1-1.2. Solution: We recommend that you upgrade your tcpdump packages. CVSS Score: 5.0 CVSS Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2003-0108 BugTraq ID: 6974 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6974 Bugtraq: 20030227 iDEFENSE Security Advisory 02.27.03: TCPDUMP Denial of Service Vulnerability in ISAKMP Packet Parsin (Google Search) http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=104637420104189&w=2 Bugtraq: 20030304 [OpenPKG-SA-2003.014] OpenPKG Security Advisory (tcpdump) (Google Search) http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=104678787109030&w=2 Conectiva Linux advisory: CLA-2003:629 http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000629 Debian Security Information: DSA-255 (Google Search) http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-255 http://www.mandrakesoft.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2003:027 http://www.idefense.com/advisory/02.27.03.txt http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-032.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-085.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-214.html SuSE Security Announcement: SuSE-SA:2003:0015 (Google Search) http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2003_015_tcpdump.html http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/11434.php
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