Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2019:2342 - Bug Fix Advisory
Issued:
2019-08-06
Updated:
2019-08-06

RHBA-2019:2342 - Bug Fix Advisory

Synopsis

tcpdump bug fix and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Red Hat Lightspeed patch analysis

Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.

View affected systems

Topic

An update for tcpdump is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Description

The tcpdump packages contain the tcpdump utility for monitoring network traffic. The tcpdump utility can capture and display the packet headers on a particular network interface or on all interfaces.

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Users of tcpdump are advised to upgrade to these updated packages.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 7 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 7 s390x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 7 ppc64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 7 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 7 s390x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, big endian 7 ppc64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, little endian 7 ppc64le

Fixes

  • BZ - 1664648 - tcpdump %post creates user and groups unconditionally, raising alerts in corporate environment

CVEs

(none)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7

SRPM
tcpdump-4.9.2-4.el7.src.rpm SHA-256: 688cfae3dcc9d81d8a5bd807091d3ef0df020469067d3ebd3b8a1ab5f70a021c
x86_64
tcpdump-4.9.2-4.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: c605b6fa28589b4c7bc4c86eae519dda03f4fec1ef6aebad2dcd6b972ae74882
tcpdump-debuginfo-4.9.2-4.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: ae5d71e4e3d0515129e8537f1869c2acf6800a9d9257793b95bb3ea7197f1b0e

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 7

SRPM
tcpdump-4.9.2-4.el7.src.rpm SHA-256: 688cfae3dcc9d81d8a5bd807091d3ef0df020469067d3ebd3b8a1ab5f70a021c
x86_64
tcpdump-4.9.2-4.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: c605b6fa28589b4c7bc4c86eae519dda03f4fec1ef6aebad2dcd6b972ae74882
tcpdump-debuginfo-4.9.2-4.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: ae5d71e4e3d0515129e8537f1869c2acf6800a9d9257793b95bb3ea7197f1b0e

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7

SRPM
tcpdump-4.9.2-4.el7.src.rpm SHA-256: 688cfae3dcc9d81d8a5bd807091d3ef0df020469067d3ebd3b8a1ab5f70a021c
x86_64
tcpdump-4.9.2-4.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: c605b6fa28589b4c7bc4c86eae519dda03f4fec1ef6aebad2dcd6b972ae74882
tcpdump-debuginfo-4.9.2-4.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: ae5d71e4e3d0515129e8537f1869c2acf6800a9d9257793b95bb3ea7197f1b0e

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7

SRPM
tcpdump-4.9.2-4.el7.src.rpm SHA-256: 688cfae3dcc9d81d8a5bd807091d3ef0df020469067d3ebd3b8a1ab5f70a021c
x86_64
tcpdump-4.9.2-4.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: c605b6fa28589b4c7bc4c86eae519dda03f4fec1ef6aebad2dcd6b972ae74882
tcpdump-debuginfo-4.9.2-4.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: ae5d71e4e3d0515129e8537f1869c2acf6800a9d9257793b95bb3ea7197f1b0e

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 7

SRPM
tcpdump-4.9.2-4.el7.src.rpm SHA-256: 688cfae3dcc9d81d8a5bd807091d3ef0df020469067d3ebd3b8a1ab5f70a021c
s390x
tcpdump-4.9.2-4.el7.s390x.rpm SHA-256: d520ce38310105dff6a483d2857a67c54b81e53bc4ffcdde60e76c3ced1006db
tcpdump-debuginfo-4.9.2-4.el7.s390x.rpm SHA-256: eee18db84286dc712145b1c9fca9bb441fb574a3d6988c29809ba4f9e0064e7d

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 7

SRPM
tcpdump-4.9.2-4.el7.src.rpm SHA-256: 688cfae3dcc9d81d8a5bd807091d3ef0df020469067d3ebd3b8a1ab5f70a021c
ppc64
tcpdump-4.9.2-4.el7.ppc64.rpm SHA-256: 184e635a50feca53926f2206e8674abcf73914e8c945ff81f752d967cb816576
tcpdump-debuginfo-4.9.2-4.el7.ppc64.rpm SHA-256: 31915fe675b308f387f05f9d76c9e1576959a486cb284fc186f1c12312c0f396

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 7

SRPM
tcpdump-4.9.2-4.el7.src.rpm SHA-256: 688cfae3dcc9d81d8a5bd807091d3ef0df020469067d3ebd3b8a1ab5f70a021c
x86_64
tcpdump-4.9.2-4.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: c605b6fa28589b4c7bc4c86eae519dda03f4fec1ef6aebad2dcd6b972ae74882
tcpdump-debuginfo-4.9.2-4.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: ae5d71e4e3d0515129e8537f1869c2acf6800a9d9257793b95bb3ea7197f1b0e

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7

SRPM
tcpdump-4.9.2-4.el7.src.rpm SHA-256: 688cfae3dcc9d81d8a5bd807091d3ef0df020469067d3ebd3b8a1ab5f70a021c
ppc64le
tcpdump-4.9.2-4.el7.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: 98134872f4c556ba8003a6a743a4c8b394137dfe463d2eea7c304651a0964382
tcpdump-debuginfo-4.9.2-4.el7.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: 401ae3dbdf634dc3aabbecb9768eec133799df2c461cba335fa7c37938344aba

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 7

SRPM
tcpdump-4.9.2-4.el7.src.rpm SHA-256: 688cfae3dcc9d81d8a5bd807091d3ef0df020469067d3ebd3b8a1ab5f70a021c
s390x
tcpdump-4.9.2-4.el7.s390x.rpm SHA-256: d520ce38310105dff6a483d2857a67c54b81e53bc4ffcdde60e76c3ced1006db
tcpdump-debuginfo-4.9.2-4.el7.s390x.rpm SHA-256: eee18db84286dc712145b1c9fca9bb441fb574a3d6988c29809ba4f9e0064e7d

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, big endian 7

SRPM
tcpdump-4.9.2-4.el7.src.rpm SHA-256: 688cfae3dcc9d81d8a5bd807091d3ef0df020469067d3ebd3b8a1ab5f70a021c
ppc64
tcpdump-4.9.2-4.el7.ppc64.rpm SHA-256: 184e635a50feca53926f2206e8674abcf73914e8c945ff81f752d967cb816576
tcpdump-debuginfo-4.9.2-4.el7.ppc64.rpm SHA-256: 31915fe675b308f387f05f9d76c9e1576959a486cb284fc186f1c12312c0f396

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, little endian 7

SRPM
tcpdump-4.9.2-4.el7.src.rpm SHA-256: 688cfae3dcc9d81d8a5bd807091d3ef0df020469067d3ebd3b8a1ab5f70a021c
ppc64le
tcpdump-4.9.2-4.el7.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: 98134872f4c556ba8003a6a743a4c8b394137dfe463d2eea7c304651a0964382
tcpdump-debuginfo-4.9.2-4.el7.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: 401ae3dbdf634dc3aabbecb9768eec133799df2c461cba335fa7c37938344aba

The Red Hat security contact is secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.