Debian DLA-126-1 : ettercap security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 82109

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Patches a bunch of security vulnerabilities :

- CVE-2014-9380 (Buffer over-read)

- CVE-2014-9381 (Signedness error) See:
https://www.obrela.com/home/security-labs/advisories/osi
-advisory-osi-1402/ Patches taken from upstream

- 6b196e011fa456499ed4650a360961a2f1323818 pull/608

- 31b937298c8067e6b0c3217c95edceb983dfc4a2 pull/609 Thanks to Nick Sampanis <[email protected]> who is responsible for both finding and repairing these issues.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2014/12/msg00028.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze-lts/ettercap

http://www.nessus.org/u?55000fec

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 82109

File Name: debian_DLA-126.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/26/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ettercap-gtk, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ettercap, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ettercap-common

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/29/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-9380, CVE-2014-9381

BID: 71691, 71693