Mageia 7: MGASA-2020-0430 Critical: Tcpdump Memory Allocation Issue
mageia
November 21, 2020
The ppp decapsulator in tcpdump 4.9.3 can be convinced to allocate a large amount of memory
Summary
The ppp decapsulator in tcpdump 4.9.3 can be convinced to allocate a large
amount of memory. (CVE-2020-8037)
References
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27595
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/11/msg00018.html
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-8037
Topics Covered
Resolution
SRPMS
- 7/core/tcpdump-4.9.3-1.1.mga7
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Publication date: 21 Nov 2020
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2020-0430.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2020-8037
Topics Covered
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