CVE-2020-8037: The TCPdump Group tcpdump

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

No CVSS scoreEPSS 0.031 · 87th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Tcpdump) at 4 Nov 2020, 17:55 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
The TCPdump Group	tcpdump	affected 4.9.3

Identifiers

CVE-2020-8037

CNA

Tcpdump

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

No source has published a CVSS score for this record yet.

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.031, the 87th percentile, on 10 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 4 Nov 2020. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/commit/32027e199368dad9508965aae8cd8de5b6ab5231
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/11/msg00018.html mailing-listmlist
lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LWDBONZVLC6BAOR2KM376DJCM4H3FERV/ vendor-advisoryfedora
lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/F2MX34MJIUJQGL6CMEPLTKFOOOC3CJ4Z/ vendor-advisoryfedora
seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/Apr/51 mailing-listfulldisc
support.apple.com/kb/HT212325 confirm
support.apple.com/kb/HT212326 confirm
support.apple.com/kb/HT212327 confirm

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