CVE-2020-8037

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Summary

CVECVE-2020-8037
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-11-04 18:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:26:00 UTC
DescriptionThe ppp decapsulator in tcpdump 4.9.3 can be convinced to allocate a large amount of memory.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-770

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Apple Macos All All All All
Operating System Apple Mac Os X All All All All
Operating System Apple Mac Os X 10.14.6 - All All
Operating System Apple Mac Os X 10.14.6 security_update_2019-001 All All
Operating System Apple Mac Os X 10.14.6 security_update_2019-002 All All
Operating System Apple Mac Os X 10.14.6 security_update_2020-001 All All
Operating System Apple Mac Os X 10.14.6 security_update_2020-002 All All
Operating System Apple Mac Os X 10.14.6 security_update_2020-003 All All
Operating System Apple Mac Os X 10.14.6 security_update_2020-004 All All
Operating System Apple Mac Os X 10.14.6 security_update_2020-005 All All
Operating System Apple Mac Os X 10.14.6 security_update_2020-006 All All
Operating System Apple Mac Os X 10.14.6 security_update_2020-007 All All
Operating System Apple Mac Os X 10.14.6 security_update_2021-001 All All
Operating System Apple Mac Os X 10.15.7 - All All
Operating System Apple Mac Os X 10.15.7 security_update_2020-001 All All
Operating System Apple Mac Os X 10.15.7 security_update_2021-001 All All
Operating System Apple Mac Os X 10.15.7 supplemental_update All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 32 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 33 All All All
Application Tcpdump Tcpdump 4.9.3 All All All
Application Tcpdump Tcpdump 4.9.3 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
PPP: When un-escaping, don't allocate a too-large buffer. · the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump@32027e1 · GitHub MISC github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: tcpdump-4.9.3-5.fc33 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: tcpdump-4.9.3-4.fc32 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: tcpdump-4.9.3-4.fc32 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
Full Disclosure: APPLE-SA-2021-04-26-3 Security Update 2021-002 Catalina FULLDISC seclists.org
About the security content of Security Update 2021-002 Catalina - Apple Support CONFIRM support.apple.com
About the security content of Security Update 2021-003 Mojave - Apple Support CONFIRM support.apple.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: tcpdump-4.9.3-5.fc33 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] [DLA 2444-1] tcpdump security update MLIST lists.debian.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
About the security content of macOS Big Sur 11.3 - Apple Support CONFIRM support.apple.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

Discovery Credit

LEGACY: Hardik Shah

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 159476 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for tcpdump (ELSA-2021-4236)
  • 198735 Ubuntu Security Notification for tcpdump Vulnerabilities (USN-5331-2)
  • 239848 Red Hat Update for tcpdump (RHSA-2021:4236)
  • 375503 Apple MacOS Big Sur 11.3 Not Installed (HT212325)
  • 375507 Apple macOS Security Update 2021-002 Catalina (HT212326)
  • 375510 Apple macOS Security Update 2021-003 Mojave (HT212327)
  • 500687 Alpine Linux Security Update for tcpdump
  • 504456 Alpine Linux Security Update for tcpdump
  • 670209 EulerOS Security Update for tcpdump (EulerOS-SA-2021-1708)
  • 670904 EulerOS Security Update for tcpdump (EulerOS-SA-2020-2535)
  • 750583 OpenSUSE Security Update for tcpdump (openSUSE-SU-2020:1986-1)
  • 750584 OpenSUSE Security Update for tcpdump (openSUSE-SU-2020:1983-1)
  • 900152 CBL-Mariner Linux Security Update for tcpdump 4.9.3
  • 901569 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for tcpdump (6905-1)
  • 903121 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for tcpdump (3589)
  • 940158 AlmaLinux Security Update for tcpdump (ALSA-2021:4236)
  • 960756 Rocky Linux Security Update for tcpdump (RLSA-2021:4236)
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