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Permalink CVE-2010-3843

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Created suggestion 2 months ago

The GTK version of ettercap uses a global settings file …

The GTK version of ettercap uses a global settings file at /tmp/.ettercap_gtk and does not verify ownership of this file. When parsing this file for settings in gtkui_conf_read() (src/interfacesgtk/ec_gtk_conf.c), an unchecked sscanf() call allows a maliciously placed settings file to overflow a statically-sized buffer on the stack.

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=643453 x_transferredx_refsource_MISC
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ettercap/+bug/656347 x_transferredx_refsource_MISC
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.oss.general/3660 x_transferredx_refsource_MISC

Affected products

ettercap

==ettercap 0.7.5

Matching in nixpkgs

pkgs.ettercap

Comprehensive suite for man in the middle attacks

nixos-unstable 0.8.4-unstable-2025-07-16
- nixpkgs-unstable 0.8.4-unstable-2025-07-16
- nixos-unstable-small 0.8.4-unstable-2025-07-16
nixos-25.11 0.8.4-unstable-2025-07-16
- nixos-25.11-small 0.8.4-unstable-2025-07-16
- nixpkgs-25.11-darwin 0.8.4-unstable-2025-07-16

pkgs.bettercap

Man in the middle tool

nixos-unstable 2.41.5
- nixpkgs-unstable 2.41.5
- nixos-unstable-small 2.41.5
nixos-25.11 2.41.4
- nixos-25.11-small 2.41.4
- nixpkgs-25.11-darwin 2.41.4

Package maintainers

@y0no Yoann Ono <y0no@y0no.fr>
@pSub Pascal Wittmann <mail@pascal-wittmann.de>