PT-2019-6579 · Ettercap · Ettercap

Dan Rosenberg + 1 · Published 2019-11-12 · Updated 2020-02-26 · CVE-2010-3844

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

8.8

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions ettercap versions prior to 0.7.5

Description The issue arises from an unchecked sscanf() call, which allows an insecure temporary settings file to overflow a static-sized buffer on the stack.

Recommendations For versions prior to 0.7.5, update to version 0.7.5 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-120

Related Identifiers

CVE-2010-3844

Affected Products

Ettercap

References · 10

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2010-3844 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-3844 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2010-3844 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-3844 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2010-3844 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2010-3844 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2010-3844 · Security Note
• https://github.com/Ettercap/ettercap/commit/4ef3ede30181eca9add74305ad26dbcb0c3686a0 · Note
• https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=600130 · Note
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2010-3844 · Note