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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-2444-1 tcpdump -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

10 Nov 2020

Affected Packages:

tcpdump

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 973877.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2020-8037.

More information:

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

The buffer should be big enough to hold the captured data, but it doesn’t need to be big enough to hold the entire on-the-network packet, if we haven’t captured all of it.

For Debian 9 stretch, this problem has been fixed in version 4.9.3-1~deb9u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your tcpdump packages.

For the detailed security status of tcpdump please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/tcpdump

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