Re: [ptxdist] [APPLIED] tcpdump: Version bump. 4.99.1 -> 4.99.2

[Michael Olbrich <m.olbrich@pengutronix.de>]

Thanks, applied as f6d24029107b2825a9d6f652f4ce2a33a21b26bf.

Michael

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On Fri, 06 Jan 2023 17:01:22 +0100, Christian Melki <christian.melki@t2data.com> wrote:
> Mostly bugfixes.
> https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/blob/e6d119663fd850eca250e7b999015b0d3b856f28/CHANGES#L54
> Reworked .in file for various errors.
> 
> * Correct various (double-) whitespace errors.
> * libcap-ng is not "as well" in relation to libpcap as in wording.
> It's a completely different library related to POSIX
> capabilities. It's needed for tcpdump to run in non-root mode.
> Don't make them sound like they're similar.
> * Some other minor text fixes.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christian Melki <christian.melki@t2data.com>
> Message-Id: <20230102100926.1906782-1-christian.melki@t2data.com>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Olbrich <m.olbrich@pengutronix.de>
> 
> diff --git a/rules/tcpdump.in b/rules/tcpdump.in
> index 74d607252f09..bc5ffdecca58 100644
> --- a/rules/tcpdump.in
> +++ b/rules/tcpdump.in
> @@ -6,35 +6,38 @@ menuconfig TCPDUMP
>  	select LIBCAP_NG if TCPDUMP_ENABLE_LIBCAP_NG
>  	select OPENSSL if TCPDUMP_ENABLE_CRYPTO
>  	help
> -	  Tcpdump  prints out the headers of packets on a network interface
> -	  that match the boolean expression.  It can also be run with
> +	  Tcpdump prints out the headers of packets on a network interface
> +	  that match the boolean expression. It can also be run with
>  	  the -w flag, which causes it to save the packet data to a file
>  	  for later analysis, and/or with the -r flag, which causes it to
>  	  read from a saved packet file rather than to read  packets from
> -	  a network interface.  In all cases, only packets that match
> +	  a network interface. In all cases, only packets that match
>  	  expression will be processed by tcpdump.
>  
>  if TCPDUMP
>  
>  config TCPDUMP_ENABLE_LIBCAP_NG
>  	bool
> -	prompt "use libcap-ng as well"
> +	prompt "enable libcap-ng support"
>  	help
> -	  Use libpcap and libcap-ng
> +	  Use libcap-ng (POSIX capabilities) in tcpdump.
> +	  It allows tcpdump to shift uid/gid and chroot to
> +	  operate in a non-privileged mode instead of using root.
>  
>  config TCPDUMP_ENABLE_CRYPTO
>  	bool
>  	prompt "enable crypto support"
>  	help
> -	  Select this, if you don't need support for
> -	  encryption (e.g. IPsec ESP packets)
> +	  Select this if you need support for decoding various
> +	  protocols in relation to encryption (f.ex. IPsec packets)
>  
>  config TCPDUMP_SMB
>  	bool
> -	prompt "enable possibly-buggy SMB printer"
> +	prompt "enable SMB-printer decoding support"
>  	default y
>  	help
> -	  Notes from configure, when this entry is checked:
> -	   The SMB printer may have exploitable buffer overflows!!!
> +	  Select this if need support for decoding packets
> +	  in relation to SMB/CIFS (printers).
> +	  Still considered buggy.
>  
>  endif
> diff --git a/rules/tcpdump.make b/rules/tcpdump.make
> index b618c8749480..4a040e01704f 100644
> --- a/rules/tcpdump.make
> +++ b/rules/tcpdump.make
> @@ -15,8 +15,8 @@ PACKAGES-$(PTXCONF_TCPDUMP) += tcpdump
>  #
>  # Paths and names
>  #
> -TCPDUMP_VERSION	:= 4.99.1
> -TCPDUMP_MD5	:= 929a255c71a9933608bd7c31927760f7
> +TCPDUMP_VERSION	:= 4.99.2
> +TCPDUMP_MD5	:= 69f8cc8e44606ba49482fa98c2f7f937
>  TCPDUMP		:= tcpdump-$(TCPDUMP_VERSION)
>  TCPDUMP_SUFFIX	:= tar.gz
>  TCPDUMP_URL	:= http://www.tcpdump.org/release/$(TCPDUMP).$(TCPDUMP_SUFFIX)