(Trustix Issues Fix) Tcpdump Can Be Crashed By a Remote User Sending a Malicious ISAKMP Packet
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SecurityTracker Alert ID: 1008743 |
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SecurityTracker URL: http://securitytracker.com/id/1008743
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CVE Reference:
CAN-2003-0989, CAN-2004-0057
(Links to External Site)
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Date: Jan 16 2004
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Impact:
Denial of service via network
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Fix Available: Yes Vendor Confirmed: Yes
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Version(s): 3.8.1 and prior versions
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Description:
Several vulnerabilities were reported in tcpdump in the processing of ISAKMP packets. A remote user can cause tcmpdump to crash or to enter an infinite loop.
It is reported that the rawprint() function in print-isakmp.c fails to validate its input arguments [CVE: CAN-2004-0057]. A remote user can send a specially crafted ISAKMP packet to cause the tcpdump process to crash. Red Hat credits Jonathan Heusser with discovering this flaw. Version 3.8.1 and prior versions are affected.
It is also reported that versions prior to 3.8.1 contain flaws that allow a remote user to force tcpdump to enter an infinite loop [CVE: CAN-2003-0989]. According to Red Hat, George Bakos discovered these flaws.
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Impact:
A remote user can cause the tcpdump process to crash or to enter an endless loop.
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Solution:
Trustix has released a fix, available at:
http://http.trustix.org/pub/trustix/updates/
ftp://ftp.trustix.org/pub/trustix/updates/
Users of the SWUP tool can update automatically using 'swup --upgrade'.
The MD5sums of the packages are:
3257aa70db7a0b029ac3994e951ed541 ./2.0/srpms/tcpdump-3.7.2-6tr.src.rpm
fcfa1bb108341c59937c6374127dd760 ./2.0/rpms/tcpdump-3.7.2-6tr.i586.rpm
bd28bd54a3aacb28eb4cc258ee45332c ./1.5/srpms/tcpdump-3.7.2-6tr.src.rpm
386d34545aa595839c4dd1f257b76815 ./1.5/rpms/tcpdump-3.7.2-6tr.i586.rpm
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Vendor URL: cvs.tcpdump.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/tcpdump/print-isakmp.c (Links to External Site)
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Cause:
Boundary error, Input validation error, State error
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Underlying OS:
Linux (Trustix)
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Message History:
This archive entry is a follow-up to the message listed below.
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Source Message Contents
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Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 17:36:59 +0100
Subject: TSLSA-2004-0004 - tcpdump
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
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Trustix Secure Linux Security Advisory #2004-0004
Package name: tcpdump
Summary: remote crashing bug
Date: 2004-01-15
Revision: 1
Affected versions: Trustix 1.5, 2.0
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Package description:
Tcpdump is a command-line tool for monitoring network traffic.
Tcpdump can capture and display the packet headers on a particular
network interface or on all interfaces. Tcpdump can display all of
the packet headers, or just the ones that match particular criteria.
Problem description:
A problem in tcpdump was discovered, where it was possible to crash the
program by sending carefully crafted packets on the network.
Action:
We recommend that all systems with this package installed be upgraded.
Please note that if you do not need the functionality provided by this
package, you may want to remove it from your system.
Location:
All Trustix updates are available from
<URI:http://http.trustix.org/pub/trustix/updates/>
<URI:ftp://ftp.trustix.org/pub/trustix/updates/>
About Trustix Secure Linux:
Trustix Secure Linux is a small Linux distribution for servers. With focus
on security and stability, the system is painlessly kept safe and up to
date from day one using swup, the automated software updater.
Automatic updates:
Users of the SWUP tool can enjoy having updates automatically
installed using 'swup --upgrade'.
Public testing:
Most updates for Trustix are made available for public testing some time
before release.
If you want to contribute by testing the various packages in the
testing tree, please feel free to share your findings on the
tsl-discuss mailinglist.
The testing tree is located at
<URI:http://tsldev.trustix.org/cloud/>
You may also use swup for public testing of updates:
site {
class = 0
location = "http://tsldev.trustix.org/cloud/rdfs/latest.rdf"
regexp = ".*"
}
Questions?
Check out our mailing lists:
<URI:http://www.trustix.org/support/>
Verification:
This advisory along with all Trustix packages are signed with the
TSL sign key.
This key is available from:
<URI:http://www.trustix.org/TSL-SIGN-KEY>
The advisory itself is available from the errata pages at
<URI:http://www.trustix.org/errata/trustix-1.5/> and
<URI:http://www.trustix.org/errata/trustix-2.0/>
or directly at
<URI:http://www.trustix.org/errata/misc/2004/TSL-2004-0004-tcpdump.asc.txt>
MD5sums of the packages:
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3257aa70db7a0b029ac3994e951ed541 ./2.0/srpms/tcpdump-3.7.2-6tr.src.rpm
fcfa1bb108341c59937c6374127dd760 ./2.0/rpms/tcpdump-3.7.2-6tr.i586.rpm
bd28bd54a3aacb28eb4cc258ee45332c ./1.5/srpms/tcpdump-3.7.2-6tr.src.rpm
386d34545aa595839c4dd1f257b76815 ./1.5/rpms/tcpdump-3.7.2-6tr.i586.rpm
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Trustix Security Team
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