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Debian DSA-478-1 : tcpdump - denial of service

medium Nessus Plugin ID 15315

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

tcpdump, a tool for network monitoring and data acquisition, was found to contain two vulnerabilities whereby tcpdump could be caused to crash through attempts to read from invalid memory locations. This bug is triggered by certain invalid ISAKMP packets.

Solution

For the current stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 3.6.2-2.8.

We recommend that you update your tcpdump package.

See Also

http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-478

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 15315

File Name: debian_DSA-478.nasl

Version: 1.21

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/29/2004

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:tcpdump, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/6/2004

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2004-0183, CVE-2004-0184

BID: 10003, 10004

DSA: 478