PT-2005-2763 · Ettercap+1 · Ettercap+1

Published 2005-05-31 · Updated 2023-03-29 · CVE-2005-1796

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Ettercap versions prior to 0.7.3

Description The issue is related to a format string vulnerability in the curses msg function, located in the ec curses.c file of the Ncurses interface. This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.

Recommendations For versions prior to 0.7.3, update to version 0.7.3 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2005-1796

DSA-749-1

Affected Products

Ettercap

Ncurses

References · 13

• http://ettercap.sourceforge.net/history.php · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2005-1796 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2005-1796 · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2005/dsa-749 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-1796 · Security Note
• http://gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200506-07.xml · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2005-1796 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/15664 · Note
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/0670 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/15535 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/16000 · Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1014084 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/13820 · Note