Bug 156040

Summary:	CAN-2005-1280 Multiple DoS issues in tcpdump (CAN-2005-1279 CAN-2005-1278)
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4	Reporter:	Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component:	tcpdump	Assignee:	Martin Stransky <stransky>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	4.0	Keywords:	Security
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OS:	Linux
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Description Josh Bressers 2005-04-26 21:29:57 UTC

The following two DoS issues were reported to bugtraq:

tcpdump[v3.8.x/v3.9.1]: ISIS, BGP, and LDP infinite loop DOS exploits
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/396932/2005-04-23/2005-04-29/0

tcpdump(/ethereal)[]: (RSVP) rsvp_print() infinite loop DOS
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/396930/2005-04-23/2005-04-29/0

Comment 1 Josh Bressers 2005-04-26 21:30:57 UTC

These issue should also affect RHEL2.1 and RHEL3

Comment 2 Mark J. Cox 2005-04-27 08:50:19 UTC

(Exploits for these issues are available)

Comment 3 Josh Bressers 2005-04-28 14:09:50 UTC

This will be RHSA-2005:417

Comment 4 Josh Bressers 2005-05-02 15:18:47 UTC

This issue doesn't affect RHEL2.1 (so says Martin).

Comment 5 Mark J. Cox 2005-05-11 08:38:11 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-421.html

Comment 6 Mark J. Cox 2005-05-11 08:40:14 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-417.html

Comment 7 Mark J. Cox 2005-05-11 08:53:40 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-421.html

Comment 8 Mark J. Cox 2005-05-11 08:54:55 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-417.html