Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in tcpdump, a command-line
network traffic analyzer These vulnerabilities might result in denial
of service or, potentially, execution of arbitrary code
For the oldstable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed
in version 492-1~deb8u1
For the stable distribution (stretch), these proble ...
A vulnerability was discovered in tcpdump's handling of LINKTYPE_SLIP pcap files An attacker could craft a malicious pcap file that would cause tcpdump to crash when attempting to print a summary of packet data within the file ...
An out-of-bounds write vulnerability was discovered in tcpdump's handling of LINKTYPE_SLIP in the sliplink_print function in print-slc An attacker could craft a malicious pcap file or send specially crafted packets to the network that would cause tcpdump to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code when attempting to print a summary of the packet ...