Security Advisory

CVE-2014-6396

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2014-12-19 15:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 12:17:23
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

The dissector_postgresql function in dissectors/ec_postgresql.c in Ettercap before 0.8.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted password length, which triggers a 0 character to be written to an arbitrary memory location.