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[SECURITY] Fedora 7 Update: tcpdump-3.9.7-1.fc7

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2007-1361
2007-07-31 15:55:22.722156
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Name        : tcpdump
Product     : Fedora 7
Version     : 3.9.7
Release     : 1.fc7
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.

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Update Information:

New upstream release.
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ChangeLog:

* Tue Jul 31 2007 Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com> - 14:3.9.7-1
- update to 3.9.7
- with -C option, drop root privileges before opening first savefile (#244860)
- update tcpslice to 1.2a3
- include time patch from Debian to fix tcpslice on 64-bit architectures
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References:

[ 1 ]  Bug #244860
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=244860
[ 2 ]  CVE-2007-3798
http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-3798
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Updated packages:

6b367f42ac9bef274c5597a65c798d2654514419 tcpdump-3.9.7-1.fc7.ppc64.rpm
01a2d8f9367b78d47b716fc7493a0446febea0cb tcpdump-debuginfo-3.9.7-1.fc7.ppc64.rpm
0fd44240f3e83256507fc4a1f220d980ef39f8a2 tcpdump-3.9.7-1.fc7.i386.rpm
ec88842d69aa09ed8fcd301676c5ffc34abb2e04 tcpdump-debuginfo-3.9.7-1.fc7.i386.rpm
f91dfd3fae62e4446aac953a3d0ba02aa8b809c9 tcpdump-3.9.7-1.fc7.x86_64.rpm
95cd859edb5e29947b58f052d5e7454fb660e340 tcpdump-debuginfo-3.9.7-1.fc7.x86_64.rpm
33ca78e068097801e47ca3b0d95f379f675b648f tcpdump-debuginfo-3.9.7-1.fc7.ppc.rpm
9a089e10db9d80e6bdd5b59ec89436ea393828fc tcpdump-3.9.7-1.fc7.ppc.rpm
9ad82d3dc32569aa19f5922bcda147e6a09e97e2 tcpdump-3.9.7-1.fc7.src.rpm

This update can be installed with the 'yum' update program.  Use 'yum update
package-name' at the command line.  For more information, refer to 'Managing
Software with yum,' available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
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