CVE-2020-8037
HIGH7.5EPSS 0.27%tcpdump - security update
Published: 11/4/2020Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
The ppp decapsulator in tcpdump 4.9.3 can be convinced to allocate a large amount of memory.
Affected packages (3)
- Alpine/tcpdumpfrom 0, < 4.9.3-r1
- Debian/tcpdumpfrom 0, < 4.9.3-7
- Debian/tcpdumpfrom 0, < 4.9.3-1~deb9u2
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |