CVE-2014-9378: Ettercap-Project Ettercap

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 3.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Ettercap 0.8.1 does not validate certain return values, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted (1) name to the parse_line function in mdns_spoof/mdns_spoof.c or (2) base64 encoded password to the dissector_imap function in dissectors/ec_imap.c.

Affected products

• Ettercap-Project Ettercap: version 0.8.1 only

Published 2014-12-19. Last modified 2026-06-17.