Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU48587

#VU48587 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Tcpdump - CVE-2020-8037

Published: November 4, 2020 / Updated: April 27, 2021

Vulnerability identifier: #VU48587

Vulnerability risk: Medium

CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green

CVE-ID: CVE-2020-8037

CWE-ID: CWE-770

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerable software:
Tcpdump

Software vendor:
Tcpdump.org

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

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

Install update from vendor's website.