Remote Code Execution and Denial of Service Vulnerability in Ettercap 0.8.1

CVE-2014-9378 · HIGH Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Ettercap 0.8.1 does not validate certain return values, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted (1) name to the parse_line function in mdns_spoof/mdns_spoof.c or (2) base64 encoded password to the dissector_imap function in dissectors/ec_imap.c.

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