Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU48587

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

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

Vulnerability identifier: #VU48587

CSH Severity: Medium

CVSS v4.0: 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

Vendor: Tcpdump.org

Affected software:
Tcpdump

Detailed vulnerability 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.