Technical Description

Gentoo has released a security patch to correct several vulnerabilities identified in tcpdump. These flaws occur when decoding specially crafted ISIS, BGP, LDP and RSVP packets, which could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service . For additional information, see : VUPEN/ADV-2005-0411 - VUPEN/ADV-2005-0410 - VUPEN/ADV-2005-0409 - VUPEN/ADV-2005-0408

Affected Products

net-analyzer/tcpdump versions prior to 3.8.3-r2

Solution

Upgrade the affected package to the latest version :
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose " >=net-analyzer/tcpdump-3.8.3-r2"

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/0505
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200505-06.xml

ChangeLog

2005-05-09 : Initial release

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