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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.53856
Category:Debian Local Security Checks
Title:Debian Security Advisory DSA 206-1 (tcpdump)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update to tcpdump;announced via advisory DSA 206-1.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update to tcpdump
announced via advisory DSA 206-1.

Vulnerability Insight:
The BGP decoding routines for tcpdump used incorrect bounds checking
when copying data. This could be abused by introducing malicious traffic
on a sniffed network for a denial of service attack against tcpdump,
or possibly even remote code execution.

This has been fixed in version 3.6.2-2.2.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
7.5

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2002-1350
BugTraq ID: 6213
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6213
Bugtraq: 20021219 TSLSA-2002-0084 - tcpdump (Google Search)
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=104032975103398&w=2
Caldera Security Advisory: CSSA-2002-050.0
ftp://ftp.caldera.com/pub/security/OpenLinux/CSSA-2002-050.0.txt
Debian Security Information: DSA-206 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-206
http://www.mandrakesoft.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2003:027
http://www.tcpdump.org/lists/workers/2001/10/msg00101.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-032.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-033.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-214.html
XForce ISS Database: tcpdump-sizeof-memory-corruption(10695)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/10695
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