Alpine: multiple tcpdump packages: security update to 4.9.3-r1 (deprecated)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 400342

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

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

See Also

https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=19fc2a2c58e25e86239e24605e8ea02cbcd82f50

https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=ee308ee825e06dfd4d8d11db01d7fd1f9f7e8692

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 400342

Version: Revision 1.23

Type: Local

Published: 8/16/2023

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.51

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-8037

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/21/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/4/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-8037