Synopsis
Moderate: tcpdump security, bug fix, and enhancement update
Type/Severity
Security Advisory: Moderate
Topic
An update for tcpdump is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate A Common Vulnerability Scoring Sy ...
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in tcpdump, a command-line
network traffic analyzer These vulnerabilities might result in denial
of service or the execution of arbitrary code
For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in
version 490-1~deb8u1
For the testing distribution (stretch), these problems have bee ...
Multiple out of bounds read and integer overflow vulnerabilities were found in tcpdump affecting the decoding of various protocols An attacker could create a crafted pcap file or send specially crafted packets to the network segment where tcpdump is running in live capture mode (without -w) which could cause it to display incorrect data, crash or ...