Agostino Sarubbo and AromalUllas discovered that ettercap, a network security tool for traffic interception, contains vulnerabilities that allowed an attacker able to provide maliciously crafted filters to cause a denial-of-service via application crash. For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 1:0.8.1-3+deb8u1. For the upcoming stable (stretch) and unstable (sid) distributions, these problems have been fixed in version 1:0.8.2-4. We recommend that you upgrade your ettercap packages.
Agostino Sarubbo and AromalUllas discovered that ettercap, a network security tool for traffic interception, contains vulnerabilities that allowed an attacker able to provide maliciously crafted filters to cause a denial-of-service via application crash.
For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 1:0.8.1-3+deb8u1.
For the upcoming stable (stretch) and unstable (sid) distributions, these problems have been fixed in version 1:0.8.2-4.
We recommend that you upgrade your ettercap packages.
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