Re: Research on tcpdump

[Raymond Borges <borgesraymond () gmail com>]

Specifically we are studying how versions fixed vulnerabilities by diffing
the code functions where the CVE states the vulnerability was. We're also
wondering why there are no  listed CVEs after 2007 for tcpdump.
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=tcpdump

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Raymond Borges
MSCS/BSCpE
SREB Fellow
CS Ph.D. Student
Lane Department of CS/EE
West Virginia University
CompTIA A+, Network+, Security+ CE


On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 8:45 AM, Michael Richardson <mcr () sandelman ca>wrote:

> > > > > > "Raymond" == Raymond Borges <borgesraymond () gmail com> writes:
>     Raymond> I'm doing research on tcpdump and I've been trying to
>     Raymond> locate the source code for versions previous to 3.5.0 but
>     Raymond> haven't had much luck. Do you know where I might find
>     Raymond> these? Thank you.
>
> hi, 3.5 was released in 2000.
> That was the first release by the tcpdump.org group.
>
> Prior to that it would have been done by the LBL folks... the 3.4
> release was probably 3-4 years earlier.    We have the CVS tree back to
> the beginning, and it was imported into git, so there maybe some
> evidence of what it looked like.
>
> What specific questions were you trying to answer in your research?
>
> --
> Michael Richardson
> -on the road-
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