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Fedora 24: Critical Security Update FEDORA-2017-36c7e7ef06 for ettercap

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An upgrade for Ettercap on Fedora 24 addresses CVE-2017-8366. Guidelines for installation are provided.
FIx for CVE-2017-8366

Summary

Ettercap is a suite for man in the middle attacks on LAN. It features

sniffing of live connections, content filtering on the fly and many other

interesting tricks. It supports active and passive dissection of many

protocols (even ciphered ones) and includes many feature for network and host

analysis.

FIx for CVE-2017-8366

[ 1 ] Bug #1447318 - CVE-2017-8366 ettercap: Heap-based buffer overflow in strescape function in ec_strings.c [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1447318

su -c 'dnf upgrade ettercap' at the command line.

For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the

GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at

https://fedoraproject.org/security/

package-announce mailing list -- package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org

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Change Log

References

Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 24
Version: 0.8.2
Release: 4.2.fc24
Summary: Network traffic sniffer/analyser, NCURSES interface version

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