Advisories » MGASA-2017-0130

Updated ettercap packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 07 May 2017
Modification date: 07 May 2017
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 5
CVE: CVE-2017-6430

Description

Etterfilter utility of Ettercap have an out-of-bounds read
denial-of-service vulnerability when parsing a crafted file. This occurs
in the compile_tree function of the ef_compiler.c source file when
processing corrupted filters (CVE-2017-6430).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20486
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/Q6NUJRIY4LV42YSZYHP34LOL73PN4ZO2/
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-6430

SRPMS

5/core

• ettercap-0.8.2-1.mga5