slashdot.org: Trojan Found in libpcap and tcpdump

[Jens Krabbenhoeft <tschenz-snort-users () noris net>]

Hi,

  might be of some interest here, too:

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/13/1255243&tid=172

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Posted by michael  on Wednesday November 13, @08:24AM
from the when-your-packet-sniffer-won't dept.

msolnik writes "Members of The Houston Linux Users Group[1] discovered
that the newest sources of libpcap and tcpdump available from
tcpdump.org were contaminated with trojan code. HLUG has notified the
maintainers of tcpdump.org. See our reports here[2] or here[3]."
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[1] http://www.hlug.org/
[2] http://hlug.fscker.com/
[3] http://151.164.128.17/def-con/

Bye,

  Jens


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