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FreeBSD : ettercap -- out-of-bound read vulnerability (b79ec16b-9da7-11e9-a0ea-a92fe7db4867)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 126487

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Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Ettercap GitHub issue :

Etterfilter results in an invalid read of 8 bytes when parsing a crafted file.

Solution

Update the affected package.

See Also

https://github.com/Ettercap/ettercap/issues/782

http://www.nessus.org/u?ac3a9065

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 126487

File Name: freebsd_pkg_b79ec16b9da711e9a0eaa92fe7db4867.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Published: 7/5/2019

Updated: 1/8/2020

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:ettercap, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/3/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/1/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-6430