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openSUSE Leap 15.2: openSUSE-SU-2020:1986-1 Moderate: tcpdump Issue

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Calendar Grey November 21, 2020
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
The latest patch for Fedora addresses a significant vulnerability in wireshark, boosting protection and correcting memory allocations.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Description

This update for tcpdump fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2020-8037: Fixed an issue where PPP decapsulator did not allocate

the right buffer size (bsc#1178466).

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project.

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 15.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2020-1986=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (x86_64):

tcpdump-4.9.2-lp152.7.3.1

tcpdump-debuginfo-4.9.2-lp152.7.3.1

tcpdump-debugsource-4.9.2-lp152.7.3.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-8037.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1178466

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2020:1986-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.2

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