CVE-2017-8366

Published: 30 April 2017

The strescape function in ec_strings.c in Ettercap 0.8.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted filter that is mishandled by etterfilter.

Priority

CVSS 3 base score: 9.8

Status

Package	Release	Status
ettercap Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	Upstream	Released





	Ubuntu 16.04 ESM (Xenial Xerus)	Released (1:0.8.2-2ubuntu1.16.04.1)
	Ubuntu 14.04 ESM (Trusty Tahr)	Does not exist (trusty was released [1:0.8.0-11ubuntu0.3])

References

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-8366
https://github.com/Ettercap/ettercap/issues/792
https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/04/29/ettercap-etterfilter-heap-based-buffer-overflow-write/
NVD
Launchpad
Debian

Bugs

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=861604

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