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  Severity: Normal
     Title: TCPDump: Decoding routines Denial of Service vulnerability
      Date: May 09, 2005
   Updated: June 12, 2005
      Bugs: #90541, #95349
        ID: 200505-06:02

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Update
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While working on the tcpdump issues solved in the original version of
this GLSA, Simon L. Nielsen from FreeBSD Security Team discovered a
similar infinite loop DoS vulnerability in the BGP handling code
(CAN-2005-1267). New packages have been released to address this new
issue.

The updated sections appear below.

Affected packages
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     Package               /  Vulnerable  /                 Unaffected
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  1  net-analyzer/tcpdump     < 3.8.3-r3                   >= 3.8.3-r3

Description
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TCPDump improperly handles and decodes ISIS (CAN-2005-1278), BGP
(CAN-2005-1267, CAN-2005-1279), LDP (CAN-2005-1279) and RSVP
(CAN-2005-1280) packets. TCPDump might loop endlessly after receiving
malformed packets.

Resolution
==========

All TCPDump users should upgrade to the latest available version:

    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose
 ">=net-analyzer/tcpdump-3.8.3-r3"

References
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  [ 1 ] CAN-2005-1267
        http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name 05-1267
  [ 2 ] CAN-2005-1278
        http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name 05-1278
  [ 3 ] CAN-2005-1279
        http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name 05-1279
  [ 4 ] CAN-2005-1280
        http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name 05-1280

Availability
============

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:

  http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200505-06.xml

Concerns?
=========

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost
importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at
http://bugs.gentoo.org.

License
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Copyright 2005 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
belongs to its owner(s).

The contents of this document are licensed under the
Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

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