ubuntu · CVE-2017-6430

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Priority: medium Published: 2017-03-15 15:59:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 22:36:11 UTC

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Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2017-6430 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (ettercap), 6 status rows across 6 suites (precise, trusty, upstream, xenial, yakkety, zesty): released 5, ignored 1.

Description:

The compile_tree function in ef_compiler.c in the Etterfilter utility in Ettercap 0.8.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a crafted filter.

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