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CVE-2010-3844

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2019-11-12 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-120

Description

An unchecked sscanf() call in ettercap before 0.7.5 allows an insecure temporary settings file to overflow a static-sized buffer on the stack.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0, 10.0
• Ettercap: 0.7.3

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2010-3844
• https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=600130
• https://github.com/Ettercap/ettercap/commit/4ef3ede30181eca9add74305ad26dbcb0c3686a0
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-3844
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2010-3844
• https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=600130
• https://github.com/Ettercap/ettercap/commit/4ef3ede30181eca9add74305ad26dbcb0c3686a0
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-3844

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