CVEvulnerability
CVE-2010-3843
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2021-05-28
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-787
Description
The GTK version of ettercap uses a global settings file at /tmp/.ettercap_gtk and does not verify ownership of this file. When parsing this file for settings in gtkui_conf_read() (src/interfacesgtk/ec_gtk_conf.c), an unchecked sscanf() call allows a maliciously placed settings file to overflow a statically-sized buffer on the stack.
Affected configurations
• ettercap-project ettercap 0.7.3
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness
References
- http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.oss.general/3660 article.gmane.org
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ettercap/+bug/656347 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=643453 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.oss.general/3660 article.gmane.org
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ettercap/+bug/656347 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=643453 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory