Resource Exhaustion The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package tcpdump-debugsource  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-TCPDUMPDEBUGSOURCE-1349246
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed20 Apr 2020

Introduced: 20 Apr 2020

CVE-2020-8037  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:8.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream tcpdump-debugsource package and not the tcpdump-debugsource package as distributed by RHEL.

The ppp decapsulator in tcpdump 4.9.3 can be convinced to allocate a large amount of memory.