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.

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Debian Security Advisory DSA-3874-1                   This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
	
https://www.debian.org/security/                       Sebastien Delafond
June 09, 2017                         https://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package        : ettercap
CVE ID         : CVE-2017-6430 CVE-2017-8366
Debian Bug     : 857035 861604

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.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/

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