Unity Linux 20.1050e / 20.1060e / 20.1070e Security Update: tcpdump (UTSA-2026-093168)

The Unity Linux 20 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the UTSA-2026-093168 advisory. The ppp decapsulator in tcpdump 4.9.3 can be convinced to allocate a large amount of memory. Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the...

MiracleLinux 8 : tcpdump-4.9.3-2.el8 (AXSA:2021-2659:02)

The remote MiracleLinux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the AXSA:2021-2659:02 advisory. tcpdump: ppp decapsulator can be convinced to allocate a large amount of memory CVE-2020-8037 Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly...

EUVD-2020-28949

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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2020-8037

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - The ppp decapsulator in tcpdump 4.9.3 can be convinced to allocate a large amount of memory. CVE-2020-8037 Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the packag...

SUSE CVE-2020-8037

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

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : tcpdump vulnerabilities (USN-5331-2)

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5331-2 advisory. USN-5331-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in tcpdump. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM : tcpdump vulnerabilities (USN-5331-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5331-1 advisory. It was discovered that tcpdump incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service, or possibly...

tcpdump security and bug fix update

14:4.9.3-2 - Resolves: 1860216 - tcpdump can not parse mptcp options - Resolves: 1901635 - ppp decapsulator can be convinced to allocate a large amount of memory - Adding tedude test to gating...

Huawei EulerOS: Security Advisory for tcpdump (EulerOS-SA-2021-1708)

The remote host is missing an update for the Huawei EulerOS SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

EulerOS 2.0 SP8 : tcpdump (EulerOS-SA-2020-2535)

According to the version of the tcpdump package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability : - The ppp decapsulator in tcpdump 4.9.3 can be convinced to allocate a large amount of memory.CVE-2020-8037 Note that Tenable Network Security has...

SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : tcpdump (SUSE-SU-2020:3358-1)

This update for tcpdump fixes the following issues : CVE-2020-8037: Fixed an issue where PPP decapsulator did not allocate the right buffer size bsc1178466. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has...

Huawei EulerOS: Security Advisory for tcpdump (EulerOS-SA-2020-2505)

The remote host is missing an update for the Huawei EulerOS SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Denial Of Service (DoS)

tcpdump is vulnerable to denial of service DoS. The vulnerability exists as the ppp decapsulator can cause a large amount of memory to be allocated...

openSUSE Security Update : tcpdump (openSUSE-2020-1986)

This update for tcpdump fixes the following issues : - CVE-2020-8037: Fixed an issue where PPP decapsulator did not allocate the right buffer size bsc1178466. This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package...

Updated tcpdump package fixes a security vulnerability

The ppp decapsulator in tcpdump 4.9.3 can be convinced to allocate a large amount of memory. CVE-2020-8037...

OPENSUSE-SU-2020:1986-1 Security update for tcpdump

This update for tcpdump fixes the following issues: - CVE-2020-8037: Fixed an issue where PPP decapsulator did not allocate the right buffer size bsc1178466. This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project...

Security update for tcpdump (moderate)

openSUSE Security Update: Security update for tcpdump Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2020:1986-1 Rating: moderate References: 1178466 Cross-References: CVE-2020-8037 Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.2 An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available. Description: This update for tcpdump...

Security update for tcpdump (moderate)

openSUSE Security Update: Security update for tcpdump Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2020:1983-1 Rating: moderate References: 1178466 Cross-References: CVE-2020-8037 Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.1 An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available. Description: This update for tcpdump...

SUSE-SU-2020:3360-1 Security update for tcpdump

This update for tcpdump fixes the following issues: - CVE-2020-8037: Fixed an issue where PPP decapsulator did not allocate the right buffer size bsc1178466. The previous update of tcpdump already fixed variuous Buffer overflow/overread vulnerabilities bsc1153098, bsc1153332 - CVE-2017-16808 AoE ...

ppp decapsulator can be convinced to allocate a large amount of memory

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