Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 250275
CVE-2007-3798 tcpdump BGP integer overflow
Last modified: 2016-03-04 05:46:10 EST
An integer overflow flaw was found in tcpdump's BGP protocol dissector. This could potentially allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code as the user running tcpdump. The upstream patch is here: http://cvs.tcpdump.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/tcpdump/print-bgp.c?r1=1.91.2.11&r2=1.91.2.12 The Gentoo bug has more information http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=184815
This flaw does not affect the version of tcpdump shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 or 3.
This issue was addressed in: Red Hat Enterprise Linux: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0368.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0387.html Fedora: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F7/FEDORA-2007-1361