RedHat tcpdump CVE-2020-8037 Denial of Service Vulnerability

Description

The tcpdump packages contain the tcpdump utility for monitoring network traffic. The tcpdump utility can capture and display the packet headers on a particular network interface or on all interfaces. Security Fix(es): tcpdump: ppp decapsulator can be convinced to allocate a large amount of memory (CVE-2020-8037) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section. Additional Changes: For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.5 Release Notes linked from the References section. SolutionFor details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Applications

tcpdump

CVE References

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