Ubuntu Security Notice 3415-1 - Wilfried Kirsch discovered a buffer overflow in the SLIP decoder in tcpdump. A remote attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. Bhargava Shastry discovered a buffer overflow in the bitfield converter utility function bittok2str_internal in tcpdump. A remote attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. Various other issues were also addressed.
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