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

["Steven M. Christey" <coley () rcf-smtp mitre org>]

Vincent,

It's probably a typo of CVE-2013-0722 (i.e., the year should be 2013, not 
2012).  However, I was not the individual who assigned the issue, so I'm 
not 100% sure - will get back to you later.

- Steve



On Thu, 10 Jan 2013, Vincent Danen wrote:

> 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
>
> --
> Vincent Danen / Red Hat Security Response Team