SuSE Security Announcement: tcpdump/libpcap (SuSE-SA:2002:020)

From: Sebastian Krahmer (krahmerat_private)
Date: Wed May 29 2002 - 05:40:32 PDT

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                            SuSE Security Announcement
    
            Package:                tcpdump/libpcap
            Announcement-ID:        SuSE-SA:2002:020
            Date:                   Wed May 29 14:00:00 MEST 2002
            Affected products:      6.4, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.0,
                                    SuSE Linux Database Server,
                                    SuSE eMail Server III,
                                    SuSE Firewall Adminhost VPN,
                                    SuSE Linux Admin-CD for Firewall,
                                    SuSE Linux Live-CD for Firewall,
                                    SuSE Linux Enterprise Server for S/390,
                                    SuSE Linux Connectivity Server,
                                    SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 7
            Vulnerability Type:     remote command execution
            Severity (1-10):        6
            SuSE default package:   yes
            Other affected systems: All systems with vulnerable tcpdump.
    
        Content of this advisory:
            1) security vulnerability resolved: Buffer overflow in tcpdump.
               problem description, discussion, solution and upgrade information
            2) pending vulnerabilities, solutions, workarounds
            3) standard appendix (further information)
    
    ______________________________________________________________________________
    
    1)  problem description, brief discussion, solution, upgrade information
    
        The tcpdump program may be used to capture and decode network traffic.
        Tcpdump decodes certain packets such as AFS requests in a wrong way
        resulting in a buffer overflow. Since running tcpdump requires root
        privileges this may lead to a root compromise of the system running
        tcpdump. We strongly recommend an update for administrators using
        tcpdump to monitor their networks since the only safe workaround is to
        not use it at all.
            Additionally to the fixed tcpdump packages we provide new libpcap
        packages. Libpcap on which most network monitoring programs rely also
        contained overflows which however are only exploitable by local attackers
        if you installed programs using libpcap setuid. This is not found in a
        default install.
            More information about tcpdump and libpcap may be found at
        http://www.tcpdump.org
    
        Please download the update package for your distribution and verify its
        integrity by the methods listed in section 3) of this announcement.
        Then, install the package using the command "rpm -Fhv file.rpm" to apply
        the update.
        Our maintenance customers are being notified individually. The packages
        are being offered to install from the maintenance web.
    
        i386 Intel Platform:
    
        SuSE-8.0
        ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/8.0/n1/tcpdump-3.6.2-300.i386.rpm
          f6b5499e4857575fa162ae24cde181c8
        source rpm:
        ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/8.0/zq1/tcpdump-3.6.2-300.src.rpm
          2dd114976f858d0a66c83f409dbf25a0
    
        SuSE-7.3
        ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.3/n1/tcpdump-3.6.2-300.i386.rpm
          dc7fba8709f74476ee463e3b7d3d9042
        source rpm:
        ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.3/zq1/tcpdump-3.6.2-300.src.rpm
          d2d6a940df5c40e54a6b30e3698458ef
    
        SuSE-7.2
        ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.2/n1/tcpdump-3.4a6-376.i386.rpm
          601bc08d351e8100767bbfd502efd44b
        source rpm:
        ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.2/zq1/tcpdump-3.4a6-376.src.rpm
          af87a4ad56fc853800c6af5982899f18
    
        SuSE-7.1
        ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.1/n1/tcpdump-3.4a6-375.i386.rpm
          a3251d65bfa05948ce3796ac9e5fdf5b
        source rpm:
        ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.1/zq1/tcpdump-3.4a6-375.src.rpm
          84ba69db15e1ff569cf674f7d61428f1
    
        SuSE-7.0
        ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.0/n1/tcpdump-3.4a6-374.i386.rpm
          63d57b2062a91d5fabeb43a5543d245e
        source rpm:
        ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.0/zq1/tcpdump-3.4a6-374.src.rpm
          204195b01bc25f84209029bed0eb00cd
    
        SuSE-6.4
        ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.4/n1/tcpdump-3.4a6-372.i386.rpm
          ebb48c115355dc4ba1f45b1f8c36f9aa
        source rpm:
        ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.4/zq1/tcpdump-3.4a6-372.src.rpm
          d2087aea083c4f6b93a518eee00c979e
    
    
        Sparc Platform:
    
        SuSE-7.3
        ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/sparc/update/7.3/n1/tcpdump-3.6.2-58.sparc.rpm
          bb422a4c2d025d3b8a805345a200576a
        source rpm:
        ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/sparc/update/7.3/zq1/tcpdump-3.6.2-58.src.rpm
          e0f85bd701865ca1f3d0923d1b9eb24c
    
        SuSE-7.1
        ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/sparc/update/7.1/n1/tcpdump-3.4a6-318.sparc.rpm
          eaf6237823690fe4cb72df39b2b75a5f
        source rpm:
        ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/sparc/update/7.1/zq1/tcpdump-3.4a6-318.src.rpm
          458f7aaa2ed33606007d345d371bf8c4
    
        SuSE-7.0
        ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/sparc/update/7.0/n1/tcpdump-3.4a6-318.sparc.rpm
          6137a3ecadd2bfd95b51039fef52187b
        source rpm:
        ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/sparc/update/7.0/zq1/tcpdump-3.4a6-318.src.rpm
          0227535bdc5f7bd6980e77737cc6182c
    
    
        AXP Alpha Platform:
    
        SuSE-7.1
        ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/7.1/n1/tcpdump-3.4a6-329.alpha.rpm
          614dfa16b71456692bc1d92b9db0998b
        source rpm:
        ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/7.1/zq1/tcpdump-3.4a6-329.src.rpm
          e5a05bdbe3d5a29f0840c488e703268b
    
        SuSE-7.0
        ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/7.0/n1/tcpdump-3.4a6-330.alpha.rpm
          0f1fbdfdcf8f4e1a90424df1b3ad05bc
        source rpm:
        ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/7.0/zq1/tcpdump-3.4a6-330.src.rpm
          d48289b8926c3fa7602b6ad026ae4130
    
        SuSE-6.4
        ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/6.4/n1/tcpdump-3.4a6-330.alpha.rpm
          bf9ef22920ff73802e3b02005476527b
        source rpm:
        ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/6.4/zq1/tcpdump-3.4a6-330.src.rpm
          1fa595c3febfc97f45642faffdd1dfb1
    
    
        PPC Power PC Platform:
    
        SuSE-7.3
        ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/7.3/n1/tcpdump-3.6.2-189.ppc.rpm
          303f6a00defddc3b8a3be1ab386021cf
        source rpm:
        ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/7.3/zq1/tcpdump-3.6.2-189.src.rpm
          552355e0f15582d47d64fd3a97542cf3
    
        SuSE-7.1
        ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/7.1/n1/tcpdump-3.4a6-317.ppc.rpm
          4dd468ba517be7c7f52a8b2ac7c2beb0
        source rpm:
        ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/7.1/zq1/tcpdump-3.4a6-317.src.rpm
          69be109e360246794c66ed55e199ee95
    
        SuSE-7.0
        ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/7.0/n1/tcpdump-3.4a6-316.ppc.rpm
          1b51e5529fa559d8453588f09d9b8585
        source rpm:
        ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/7.0/zq1/tcpdump-3.4a6-316.src.rpm
          20d1da2b898a483df771809747851967
    
        SuSE-6.4
        ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/6.4/n1/tcpdump-3.4a6-315.ppc.rpm
          97cd7574108f3fcb9f52a7213d626481
        source rpm:
        ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/6.4/zq1/tcpdump-3.4a6-315.src.rpm
          67c63c89e26c2a17df6fef3585f41481
    
    
    ______________________________________________________________________________
    
    2)  Pending vulnerabilities in SuSE Distributions and Workarounds:
    
        - Perl-Digest-MD5
        The Perl Digest-MD5 module fails to handle utf8 characters properly
        and thus calculates wrong hash sums for certain input. New packages
        are already available on our ftp servers.
    
    ______________________________________________________________________________
    
    3)  standard appendix: authenticity verification, additional information
    
      - Package authenticity verification:
    
        SuSE update packages are available on many mirror ftp servers all over
        the world. While this service is being considered valuable and important
        to the free and open source software community, many users wish to be
        sure about the origin of the package and its content before installing
        the package. There are two verification methods that can be used
        independently from each other to prove the authenticity of a downloaded
        file or rpm package:
        1) md5sums as provided in the (cryptographically signed) announcement.
        2) using the internal gpg signatures of the rpm package.
    
        1) execute the command
            md5sum <name-of-the-file.rpm>
           after you downloaded the file from a SuSE ftp server or its mirrors.
           Then, compare the resulting md5sum with the one that is listed in the
           announcement. Since the announcement containing the checksums is
           cryptographically signed (usually using the key securityat_private),
           the checksums show proof of the authenticity of the package.
           We disrecommend to subscribe to security lists which cause the
           email message containing the announcement to be modified so that
           the signature does not match after transport through the mailing
           list software.
           Downsides: You must be able to verify the authenticity of the
           announcement in the first place. If RPM packages are being rebuilt
           and a new version of a package is published on the ftp server, all
           md5 sums for the files are useless.
    
        2) rpm package signatures provide an easy way to verify the authenticity
           of an rpm package. Use the command
            rpm -v --checksig <file.rpm>
           to verify the signature of the package, where <file.rpm> is the
           filename of the rpm package that you have downloaded. Of course,
           package authenticity verification can only target an uninstalled rpm
           package file.
           Prerequisites:
            a) gpg is installed
            b) The package is signed using a certain key. The public part of this
               key must be installed by the gpg program in the directory
               ~/.gnupg/ under the user's home directory who performs the
               signature verification (usually root). You can import the key
               that is used by SuSE in rpm packages for SuSE Linux by saving
               this announcement to a file ("announcement.txt") and
               running the command (do "su -" to be root):
                gpg --batch; gpg < announcement.txt | gpg --import
               SuSE Linux distributions version 7.1 and thereafter install the
               key "buildat_private" upon installation or upgrade, provided that
               the package gpg is installed. The file containing the public key
               is placed at the toplevel directory of the first CD (pubring.gpg)
               and at ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/pubring.gpg-build.suse.de .
    
    
      - SuSE runs two security mailing lists to which any interested party may
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        suse-securityat_private
            -   general/linux/SuSE security discussion.
                All SuSE security announcements are sent to this list.
                To subscribe, send an email to
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        suse-security-announceat_private
            -   SuSE's announce-only mailing list.
                Only SuSE's security annoucements are sent to this list.
                To subscribe, send an email to
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        For general information or the frequently asked questions (faq)
        send mail to:
            <suse-security-infoat_private> or
            <suse-security-faqat_private> respectively.
    
        =====================================================================
        SuSE's security contact is <securityat_private> or <securityat_private>.
        The <securityat_private> public key is listed below.
        =====================================================================
    ______________________________________________________________________________
    
        The information in this advisory may be distributed or reproduced,
        provided that the advisory is not modified in any way. In particular,
        it is desired that the cleartext signature shows proof of the
        authenticity of the text.
        SuSE Linux AG makes no warranties of any kind whatsoever with respect
        to the information contained in this security advisory.
    
    Type Bits/KeyID    Date       User ID
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    pub  1024D/9C800ACA 2000-10-19 SuSE Package Signing Key <buildat_private>
    
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