Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting tcpdump-debugsource package, versions <14:4.9.3-2.el8


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Rocky Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.97% (84th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ROCKY8-TCPDUMPDEBUGSOURCE-3287291
  • published3 Feb 2023
  • disclosed4 Nov 2020

Introduced: 4 Nov 2020

CVE-2020-8037  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Rocky-Linux:8 tcpdump-debugsource to version 14:4.9.3-2.el8 or higher.
This issue was patched in RLSA-2021:4236.

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 Rocky-Linux. See How to fix? for Rocky-Linux:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

CVSS Scores

version 3.1