CVE-2020-8037 (GCVE-0-2020-8037)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-11-04 17:55 – Updated: 2024-09-16 20:27
VLAI
Title
ppp decapsulator can be convinced to allocate a large amount of memory
Summary
The ppp decapsulator in tcpdump 4.9.3 can be convinced to allocate a large amount of memory.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • memory overallocation error
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
The TCPdump Group tcpdump Affected: 4.9.3
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Date Public
2020-04-21 00:00
Credits
Hardik Shah
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