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Trojan Found in libpcap and tcpdump

Posted by michael on from the when-your-packet-sniffer-won't dept.

msolnik writes "Members of The Houston Linux Users Group 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 or here."

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  1. Re:This is dreadful by phaze3000 · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's the one problem with the open-source community - there's no-one to pay me to pay my staff for the lost man-hours caused by this.

    I couldn't agree more, if those cheap-arsed hippies who write Linux would only pay up when there's a problem with their software like reputable commercial companies like Micros.. err, Oracl.. err actually, forget it.

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    Blaming GW Bush for the Iraq war is like blaming Ronald McDonald for the poor quality of food.
  2. Isn't this the whole point of Open Source? by elliotj · · Score: 5, Funny

    I thought the whole idea of the GPL was that you could take a program and modify it to your own needs so long as you release the source back to the community under the same license.

    Sounds like that's what happened here!

  3. Re:This is dreadful by djtack · · Score: 5, Funny

    And looking through his user profile, he's also a rocket scientist. Wow.