Confirming CVE for ettercap buffer overflow flaw (CVE-2012-0722?)

[Vincent Danen <vdanen () redhat com>]

This isn't on MITRE's site (reserved), and the initial advisory
indicates that this has a CVE of CVE-2012-0722.  Can someone confirm
that this is the correct CVE name?



A stack-based buffer overflow was reported [1],[2] in Ettercap <=
0.7.5.1.  A boundary error within the scan_load_hosts() function (in
src/ec_scan.c), when parsing entries from a hosts list, could be
exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow via an overly long
entry.  In order to exploit this, a user must be tricked into loading a
malicious host file.

This has not yet been corrected upstream, but a proposed patch is
available [3].

The initial report [1] indicates that this was given the name
CVE-2012-0722.

[1] http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/23945/
[2] https://secunia.com/advisories/51731/
[3] http://www.securation.com/files/2013/01/ec.patch

Also:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=894092
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=451198

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Vincent Danen / Red Hat Security Response Team