tcpdump vulnerabilities

27 January 2020

tcpdump vulnerabilities

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

• Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in tcpdump.

Software Description

• tcpdump - command-line network traffic analyzer

Details

Multiple security issues were discovered in tcpdump. A remote attacker could use these issues to cause tcpdump to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

tcpdump - 4.9.3-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

tcpdump - 4.9.3-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

This update uses a new upstream release, which includes additional bug fixes. In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2017-16808
• CVE-2018-10103
• CVE-2018-10105
• CVE-2018-14461
• CVE-2018-14462
• CVE-2018-14463
• CVE-2018-14464
• CVE-2018-14465
• CVE-2018-14466
• CVE-2018-14467
• CVE-2018-14468
• CVE-2018-14469
• CVE-2018-14470
• CVE-2018-14879
• CVE-2018-14880
• CVE-2018-14881
• CVE-2018-14882
• CVE-2018-16227
• CVE-2018-16228
• CVE-2018-16229
• CVE-2018-16230
• CVE-2018-16300
• CVE-2018-16451
• CVE-2018-16452
• CVE-2018-19519
• CVE-2019-1010220
• CVE-2019-15166
• CVE-2019-15167