Bug 45520

Summary:	Remote root exploit
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Chris Covington <ccoving>
Component:	tcpdump	Assignee:	Harald Hoyer <harald>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	7.1	CC:	hsie, jarno.huuskonen, pekkas
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OS:	Linux
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Description Chris Covington 2001-06-22 13:52:51 UTC

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Description of problem:
Remote root exploit reported in all versions prior to tcpdump 3.6.

http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/l-015.shtml
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2001-06/0163.html
http://www.tcpdump.org/lists/announce/1999/msg00004.html


How reproducible:
Didn't try


Additional info:

Comment 1 Pekka Savola 2001-07-17 18:37:10 UTC

"Remore root" might be a bit misnomer here, but this is a real issue, yes.

Comment 2 Harald Hoyer 2002-01-17 13:22:22 UTC

should be fixed with tcpdump-3.6.2-10 and newer packages