Bug 1429571 (CVE-2017-6430)

Summary:	CVE-2017-6430 ettercap: Out-of-bounds read in etterfilter utility
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Andrej Nemec <anemec>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-03-06 15:53:32 UTC

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.

References:

http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2017/Mar/24

Upstream bug:

https://github.com/Ettercap/ettercap/issues/782

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/LocutusOfBorg/ettercap/commit/626dc56686f15f2dda13c48f78c2a666cb6d8506