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 found in tcpdump's verbose printing of packet data A crafted pcap file or specially crafted network traffic could cause tcpdump to write out of bounds in the BSS segment, potentially causing tcpdump to display truncated or incorrectly decoded fields or crash with a segmentation violation This does not affect tcpdump when used ...
An out-of-bounds write vulnerability was discovered in tcpdump's parsers when calling bittok2str_internal 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 while processing the packet data ...