Out-of-Bounds Affecting ettercap/ettercap package, versions [,0.8.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.57% (74th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-ETTERCAPETTERCAP-2374180
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed30 Apr 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 30 Apr 2017

CVE-2017-8366  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade ettercap/ettercap to version 0.8.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. The strescape function in ec_strings.c in Ettercap 0.8.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted filter that is mishandled by etterfilter.

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