It was discovered that certain invalid GRE, LDP, BGP, and RSVP packets triggered infinite loops in tcpdump, which caused tcpdump to stop working. This could be abused by a remote attacker to bypass tcpdump analysis of network traffic.
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
6 May 2005
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
It was discovered that certain invalid GRE, LDP, BGP, and RSVP packets triggered infinite loops in tcpdump, which caused tcpdump to stop working. This could be abused by a remote attacker to bypass tcpdump analysis of network traffic.
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
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