Bug#793479: tcpdump: tcpdump prints dropped privs to user message to stdout, should be stderr
On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 11:23:09PM +0200, Hilko Bengen wrote: If we can agree on important, that should be enough to get it fixed for the next point release. Ok, I downgraded this bug to 'important'. -- Romain Francoise rfranco...@debian.org http://people.debian.org/~rfrancoise/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#793479: tcpdump: tcpdump prints dropped privs to user message to stdout, should be stderr
* Romain Francoise: Hi, On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 01:57:29PM +0200, Hilko Bengen wrote: I have been using tcpdump like this for ages: /usr/sbin/tcpdump -Z $user -S0 -p -n U -B $bufsz -i $iface -w - $rule [...] Post-processing of the resulting streams broke after upgrading to jessie because tcpdump prints that bit of information about dropping privileges to standard output. Hmm, that's unfortunate, and the fix is trivial enough that I can probably get it into stable for the next point release. That would be great, thank you. However, I don't agree with the severity of this bug. Your use case is quite atypical. If we can agree on important, that should be enough to get it fixed for the next point release. Cheers, -Hilko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#793479: tcpdump: tcpdump prints dropped privs to user message to stdout, should be stderr
Hi, On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 01:57:29PM +0200, Hilko Bengen wrote: I have been using tcpdump like this for ages: /usr/sbin/tcpdump -Z $user -S0 -p -n U -B $bufsz -i $iface -w - $rule [...] Post-processing of the resulting streams broke after upgrading to jessie because tcpdump prints that bit of information about dropping privileges to standard output. Hmm, that's unfortunate, and the fix is trivial enough that I can probably get it into stable for the next point release. However, I don't agree with the severity of this bug. Your use case is quite atypical. -- Romain Francoise rfranco...@debian.org http://people.debian.org/~rfrancoise/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#793479: tcpdump: tcpdump prints dropped privs to user message to stdout, should be stderr
Package: tcpdump Version: 4.6.2-5 Severity: grave Control: fixed -1 4.7.4-1 Control: tag -1 jessie I have been using tcpdump like this for ages: /usr/sbin/tcpdump -Z $user -S0 -p -n U -B $bufsz -i $iface -w - $rule The important thing here is that tcpdump drops privileges to $user and writes the pcap file to standard output ... which gets piped to another process. Post-processing of the resulting streams broke after upgrading to jessie because tcpdump prints that bit of information about dropping privileges to standard output. This has been fixed in 4.7.4-1 currently part of stretch. Since a backport of that is available via jessie-backports, I'm going to use that on the machines affected. Cheers, -Hilko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
