Fedora Linux 8783 Published by

A tcpdump security update has been released for Fedora 38.



SECURITY: Fedora 38 Update: tcpdump-4.99.4-1.fc38


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2023-33906c7c4a
2023-04-20 04:40:58.216661
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Name : tcpdump
Product : Fedora 38
Version : 4.99.4
Release : 1.fc38
URL :   http://www.tcpdump.org
Summary : A network traffic monitoring tool
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.

Install tcpdump if you need a program to monitor network traffic.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Update Information:

New versions of libpcap and tcpdump
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ChangeLog:

* Wed Apr 12 2023 Michal Ruprich - 14:4.99.4-1
- New version 4.99.4
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
References:

[ 1 ] Bug #2185319 - libpcap-1.10.4 is available
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2185319
[ 2 ] Bug #2185321 - tcpdump-4.99.4 is available
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2185321
[ 3 ] Bug #2185499 - CVE-2023-1801 tcpdump: OOB write in SMB decoder [fedora-all]
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2185499
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-33906c7c4a' at the command
line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
  http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
  https://fedoraproject.org/keys
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
_______________________________________________