CVEvulnerability
CVE-2014-9378
7.5 HIGH
Official page ↗
- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2014-12-19
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
Ettercap 0.8.1 does not validate certain return values, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted (1) name to the parse_line function in mdns_spoof/mdns_spoof.c or (2) base64 encoded password to the dissector_imap function in dissectors/ec_imap.c.
Affected configurations
• ettercap-project ettercap 0.8.1
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/534248/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71695 www.securityfocus.com
- https://github.com/Ettercap/ettercap/pull/604 github.com
- https://github.com/Ettercap/ettercap/pull/610 github.com
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201505-01 security.gentoo.org
- https://www.obrela.com/home/security-labs/advisories/osi-advisory-osi-1402/ www.obrela.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/534248/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71695 www.securityfocus.com
- https://github.com/Ettercap/ettercap/pull/604 github.com
- https://github.com/Ettercap/ettercap/pull/610 github.com
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201505-01 security.gentoo.org
- https://www.obrela.com/home/security-labs/advisories/osi-advisory-osi-1402/ www.obrela.com