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Created Nov 22, 2020 by Emily@emily🤖

user/tcpdump: CVE-2020-8037: ppp excessive memory allocation

Bugzilla ID 372
Alias(es) CVE-2020-8037
Reporter Max Rees (sroracle)
Assignee Max Rees (sroracle)
Reported 2020-11-21 22:24:31 -0600
Modified 2020-11-21 22:24:31 -0600
Status UNCONFIRMED
Version 1.0-RC1
Hardware Adélie Linux / All
Importance --- / normal
Package(s) user/tcpdump

Description

CVE-2020-8037: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-8037

The ppp decapsulator in tcpdump 4.9.3 can be convinced to allocate a
large amount of memory.

Unreleased fix
https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/commit/32027e199368dad9508965aae8cd8de5b6ab5231

Edited Nov 04, 2021 by Zach van Rijn
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