Bug 1429571 (CVE-2017-6430) - CVE-2017-6430 ettercap: Out-of-bounds read in etterfilter utility
Summary: CVE-2017-6430 ettercap: Out-of-bounds read in etterfilter utility
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2017-6430
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Reported: 2017-03-06 15:53 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2021-10-21 11:51 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2021-10-21 11:51:59 UTC
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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
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