Vulnerability CVE-2014-9378
Published: 2014-12-19

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.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
High
Ettercap 8.0 / 8.1 Code Execution / Denial Of Service
Nick Sampanis
17.12.2014
Med.
Ettercap 0.8.0 / 0.8.1 Denial Of Service
Nick Sampanis
20.12.2014

Type:

CWE-20

 (Improper Input Validation)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.5/10
6.4/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Ettercap project -> Ettercap 

 References:
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/534248/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71695
https://github.com/Ettercap/ettercap/pull/604
https://github.com/Ettercap/ettercap/pull/610
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201505-01
https://www.obrela.com/home/security-labs/advisories/osi-advisory-osi-1402/
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