Bug 1772597 (CVE-2010-3844)

Summary:	CVE-2010-3844 ettercap: insecure temporary settings file leads to stack buffer overflow
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz <gsuckevi>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Description Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2019-11-14 17:29:52 UTC

An unchecked sscanf() call in ettercap 0.7.3 allows an insecure temporary settings file to overflow a static-sized buffer on the stack.

Reference:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=600130