Bug#793479: tcpdump: tcpdump prints dropped privs to user message to stdout, should be stderr

2015-07-31 Thread Romain Francoise
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

Bug#793479: tcpdump: tcpdump prints dropped privs to user message to stdout, should be stderr

2015-07-25 Thread Hilko Bengen
* 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

Bug#793479: tcpdump: tcpdump prints dropped privs to user message to stdout, should be stderr

2015-07-24 Thread 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

Bug#793479: tcpdump: tcpdump prints dropped privs to user message to stdout, should be stderr

2015-07-24 Thread Hilko Bengen
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