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.me...@t2data.com>
---
rules/tcpdump.in | 23 +++++++++++++----------
rules/tcpdump.make | 4 ++--
2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
diff --git a/rules/tcpdump.in b/rules/tcpdump.in
index 74d607252..bc5ffdecc 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 b618c8749..4a040e017 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)
--
2.34.1
