tcpdump 4.99.5 & libpcap 1.10.5

[Denis Ovsienko <denis () ovsienko info>]

Hello all.

I hope this finds you well.  tcpdump 4.99.5 and libpcap 1.10.5 are now
available in the usual places [1].  It has been almost 1.5 years since
the previous .4 releases, so this time it is many more bug fixes and
improvements than usual.  Among other things libpcap 1.10.5 addresses
two CVEs that only apply if libpcap was built with the remote packet
capture support (which is not the default).

As discussed earlier on the list, the traditional signed tarballs on the
web site include a ready to run configure script generated using
Autoconf 2.71.  I have verified that the contents of the tarballs
corresponds to the contents of the git repositories as expected, this
was done by using two independent hosts (Linux/AMD64 and
OpenBSD/AArch64) and comparing the outputs.  If anyone would like to
verify this, there is a helper script at [2].

Users that prefer to use their own copy of Autoconf (version >= 2.69)
or build the projects from git clones (which no longer include the
generated configure scripts) may find it useful to run the helper
script in the source tree (autogen.sh).  On this note, git tags for
these releases have been signed using the same release key.

Thanks to everyone who contributed their time and skills.

1: https://www.tcpdump.org/release/
2: https://www.tcpdump.org/release/tarballdiff.sh

-- 
    Denis Ovsienko
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