Bug 1895080 (CVE-2020-8037)
| Summary: | CVE-2020-8037 tcpdump: ppp decapsulator can be convinced to allocate a large amount of memory | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Product: | [Other] Security Response | Reporter: | Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz <gsuckevi> |
| Component: | vulnerability | Assignee: | Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | unspecified | CC: | kyoshida, luhliari, mruprich, msehnout, msekleta |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Whiteboard: | |||
| Fixed In Version: | tcpdump 4.10.0rc1 | Doc Type: | If docs needed, set a value |
| Doc Text: |
A flaw was found in tcpdump while printing PPP packets captured in a pcap file or coming from the network. This flaw allows a remote attacker to send specially crafted packets that, when printed, can lead the application to allocate a large amount of memory, resulting in a denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.
|
Story Points: | --- |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2021-11-10 01:54:35 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
| Embargoed: | |||
| Bug Depends On: | 1895082, 1901635 | ||
| Bug Blocks: | 1895083 | ||
|
Description
Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz
2020-11-05 17:10:27 UTC
Created tcpdump tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1895082] This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Via RHSA-2021:4236 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4236 This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s): https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2020-8037 |