CVEvulnerability
CVE-2010-3844
8.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-11-12
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-120
Description
An unchecked sscanf() call in ettercap before 0.7.5 allows an insecure temporary settings file to overflow a static-sized buffer on the stack.
Affected configurations
• ettercap-project ettercap 0.7.3
• debian debian linux 8.0
• debian debian linux 9.0
• debian debian linux 10.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input weakness
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2010-3844 Broken Link, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=600130 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/Ettercap/ettercap/commit/4ef3ede30181eca9add74305ad26dbcb0c3686a0 github.com
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-3844 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2010-3844 Broken Link, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=600130 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/Ettercap/ettercap/commit/4ef3ede30181eca9add74305ad26dbcb0c3686a0 github.com
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-3844 Third Party Advisory