Fedora 33: tcpdump 2020-fae2e1f2bc

Security fix for CVE-2020-8037

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2020-fae2e1f2bc
2020-11-30 01:08:19.325535
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Name        : tcpdump
Product     : Fedora 33
Version     : 4.9.3
Release     : 5.fc33
URL         : https://www.tcpdump.org
Summary     : A network traffic monitoring tool
Description :
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.

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Update Information:

Security fix for CVE-2020-8037
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ChangeLog:

* Fri Nov 27 2020 Michal Ruprich  - 14:4.9.3-5
- Fix for CVE-2020-8037
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References:

  [ 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
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-fae2e1f2bc' at the command
line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
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