Advisories » MGASA-2020-0430

Updated tcpdump package fixes a security vulnerability

Publication date: 21 Nov 2020
Modification date: 21 Nov 2020
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 7
CVE: CVE-2020-8037

Description

The ppp decapsulator in tcpdump 4.9.3 can be convinced to allocate a large
amount of memory. (CVE-2020-8037)
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27595
• https://www.debian.org/lts/security/2020/dla-2444
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-8037

SRPMS

7/core

• tcpdump-4.9.3-1.1.mga7