CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-8037
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-11-04
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-770
Description
The ppp decapsulator in tcpdump 4.9.3 can be convinced to allocate a large amount of memory.
Affected configurations
• tcpdump tcpdump 4.9.3
• debian debian linux 9.0
• fedoraproject fedora 32
• fedoraproject fedora 33
• apple mac os x (< 10.14.6)
• apple mac os x (>= 10.15 < 10.15.7)
• apple mac os x 10.14.6
• apple mac os x 10.15.7
• apple macos (>= 11.0 < 11.3)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling weakness
References
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/Apr/51 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/commit/32027e199368dad9508965aae8cd8de5b6ab5231 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/11/msg00018.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/F2MX34MJIUJQGL6CMEPLTKFOOOC3CJ4Z/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LWDBONZVLC6BAOR2KM376DJCM4H3FERV/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT212325 Third Party Advisory
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT212326 Third Party Advisory
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT212327 Third Party Advisory
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/Apr/51 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/commit/32027e199368dad9508965aae8cd8de5b6ab5231 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/11/msg00018.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/F2MX34MJIUJQGL6CMEPLTKFOOOC3CJ4Z/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LWDBONZVLC6BAOR2KM376DJCM4H3FERV/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT212325 Third Party Advisory
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT212326 Third Party Advisory
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT212327 Third Party Advisory