Fedora 32 Advisory: 2020-c5e78886d6 Critical Tcpdump Memory Issue

Tcpdump is a command-line tool for monitoring network traffic.

Tcpdump can capture and display the packet headers on a particular

network interface or on all interfaces. Tcpdump can display all of

the packet headers, or just the ones that match particular criteria.

Install tcpdump if you need a program to monitor network traffic.

Security fix for CVE-2020-8037

* Fri Nov 27 2020 Michal Ruprich - 14:4.9.3-4

- Fix for CVE-2020-8037

[ 1 ] Bug #1895080 - CVE-2020-8037 tcpdump: ppp decapsulator can be convinced to allocate a large amount of memory

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1895080

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-c5e78886d6' at the command

line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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https://fedoraproject.org/security/

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