MGASA-2014-0503

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MGASA-2014-0503

Summary: Updated tcpdump package fixes security vulnerabilities

Details: The Tcpdump program could crash when processing a malformed OLSR payload when the verbose output flag was set (CVE-2014-8767). The application decoder for the Ad hoc On-Demand Distance Vector (AODV) protocol in Tcpdump fails to perform input validation and performs unsafe out-of-bound accesses. The application will usually not crash, but perform out-of-bounds accesses and output/leak larger amounts of invalid data, which might lead to dropped packets. It is unknown if a payload exists that might trigger segfaults (CVE-2014-8769).

References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0503.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14673, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-November/144951.html