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CVE-2010-3843 (GCVE-0-2010-3843)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-05-28 12:14 – Updated: 2024-08-07 03:26
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Summary
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.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
n/a ettercap Affected: ettercap 0.7.5
Date Public
2010-10-13 00:00
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