Bug 1772597 (CVE-2010-3844) - CVE-2010-3844 ettercap: insecure temporary settings file leads to stack buffer overflow
Summary: CVE-2010-3844 ettercap: insecure temporary settings file leads to stack buffe...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2010-3844
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: 2019-11-14 17:29 UTC by Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz
Modified: 2021-10-27 10:50 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2021-10-27 10:50:40 UTC

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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.

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