Fedora Core 6 : tcpdump-3.9.4-11.fc6 (2007-654)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 25839

Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.

Description

- CVE-2007-3798

Integer overflow in print-bgp.c in the BGP dissector in tcpdump 3.9.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted TLVs in a BGP packet, related to an unchecked return value.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?d2bb7183

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 25839

File Name: fedora_2007-654.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/3/2007

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:arpwatch, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:libpcap, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:libpcap-devel, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:tcpdump, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:tcpdump-debuginfo, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:6

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 8/1/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-3798

CWE: 189

FEDORA: 2007-654