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Ettercap Changelog

What's new in Ettercap 0.8.2

Mar 16, 2015
  • BUG FIX:
  • Fixed some openssl deprecated functions usage
  • Fixed log file ownership
  • Fixed mixed output print
  • Fixed drop_privs function usage
  • Fixed nopromisc option usage.
  • Fixed missing break in parser code.
  • Improved redirect commands
  • Fix truncated VLAN packet headers
  • Fix ettercap.rc file (windows only)
  • Various cmake fixes
  • A ton of BSD bug fixes
  • Simplify macosx cmake files
  • Fix incorrect sequence number after TCP injection
  • Fix pcap length, and aligment problems with libpcap
  • Bug fixes and gtk code refactor (gtk box wrapper)
  • Fix some ipv6 send issues
  • Fixed sleep time on Windows (high CPU usage)
  • Fixed many CVE vulnerabilities (some of them already fixed in 0.8.1):
  • CVE-2014-6395 (Length Parameter Inconsistency)
  • CVE-2014-6396 (Arbitrary write)
  • CVE-2014-9376 (Negative index/underflow)
  • CVE-2014-9377 (Heap overflow)
  • CVE-2014-9378 (Unchecked return value)
  • CVE-2014-9379 (Incorrect cast)
  • CVE-2014-9380 (Buffer over-read)
  • CVE-2014-9381 (Signedness error)
  • NEW FEATURES:
  • Updated etter.finger.mac
  • Add TXT and ANY query support on dns_spoof
  • New macosx travis-ci build!
  • Enable again PDF generation
  • REMOVED:
  • Remove gprof support

New in Ettercap 0.8.1 (Oct 28, 2014)

  • Bug Fix:
  • Fixed incorrect checksum computation on 64-bit systems
  • Fixed DNS resolution problems
  • Fixed hurd build failure (not specific to hurd but hurd seems the first OS defining ESUCCESS in glibc)
  • Fixed rpath handling
  • Fixed scan host crash with recent kernels
  • Fixed etter{log,filter} library path
  • O5LOGON dissector fixes for stealth mode scans
  • Fix constants to allow full hexadecimal characterset. Useful for filtering on ESP SPIs
  • Fixed some incoherencies in gbls pointers in utils and core
  • Fixed dhcp spoofing automatically start in text ui
  • Many fixes in filter compiler
  • Fixed lua installation path
  • Many ipv6 fixes and improvements
  • Fixed tests build failures
  • Fixed many iconv detection problems
  • Fixed many ctime problems
  • Fixed many dissector ports
  • Fixed timers incoherences
  • Fixed powerpc build failure
  • Fixed uniqueness of our include guards
  • Fixed cmake warnings, by correctly linking our libraries
  • Fixed clean target
  • Fixed COOKIE_PATTERN string
  • A ton of kfreebsd, freebsd, and MacOS fixes and build fixes
  • Fixed with a new "regain_privs" the ip forwarding restore
  • Fixed another scan crash
  • Fixed host list updated (delegated to the main thread)
  • Fixed etter.conf.v6 and etter.conf.v4 installation
  • Fixed (removed) some old code
  • Fixed (removed) some dbus interfaces listed in ettercap
  • Fixed some libraries link issues
  • Fixed various polkit installation directory issues
  • Fixed plugin path issues
  • Fixed bundled libs building order
  • Fixed undefined ips added to the host list (e.g. 0.0.0.0 in dhcp discover)
  • Fixed macosx builds
  • Moved check framework in bundled_libs directory
  • Fixed crash on scan for hosts, by adding a mutex
  • Fixed libettercap.so linking, by removing curses and gtk stuff
  • Fixed ip_add_to_int32 macro
  • Fixed a ton of warnings in gtk, curses and core
  • Fixed some documentation
  • Fixed tests with eglibc >= 2.17
  • Fixed check framework find, with fallback in the bundled one if not available
  • Fixed bug in etter.finger.mac parsing
  • Fixed ssl checks on cmake, now it is mandatory
  • Fixed scan for hosts progress bar
  • Fixed linux.org ip address on etter.dns conf file
  • Fixed some memory leakages
  • Fixed missing RelWithDebInfo on Cmake
  • Fixed typos
  • Fixed some performance issues in scan for hosts function
  • Fixed race condition when scan progress was canceled
  • Fixed cmake flags passing
  • Fixed IPv6 build
  • Fixed debug messages
  • New Features:
  • Iexperimental ESP detection/filtering
  • make etter{log,filter} ipv6 compatible
  • Enabled multithread scan for Curses interface
  • New appdata xml file
  • New experimental GTK3 support!
  • New threaded host resolution!
  • Many build and runtime performances improvements
  • Ettercap builds on windows (MingW) again!
  • New arp "smart" poisoning!
  • New base64 encode and decode functions
  • New execinject etterfilter command
  • New ipv6 hidden scan mode
  • New support for multiple plugins in UI mode
  • New uninstall target
  • Gnu/Hurd support!
  • Automatically refresh plugin list
  • Threading some plugins
  • A new function for self-destruct plugins
  • New INSTALL_EXEDIR cmake option, now you can have "ettercap" and the other binaries in two different directories!
  • New Null/Loopback decoder!
  • Added automatic irc notifications!
  • Added some debug and fortify-source flags
  • Added some travis builds!
  • Updated etter.finger.mac
  • Added support for parsing RIPv2 and OSPF MD5 authentication packets
  • Updated curl and check bundled libraries
  • updated etter.filter.examples file
  • updated TODO list
  • etterfilter now is IPv6 ready!
  • Documentation updated
  • Man pages updated
  • New nd-poisoning!
  • Increased IPv6 probe delay from 2 seconds to 3
  • Removed:
  • Removed hex_encode stuff
  • Removed ec_pap.c since it was already implemented in ec_ppp.c
  • Removed duplicate code, in favour of libettercap usage

New in Ettercap 0.8.0 (Sep 21, 2013)

  • Bug Fix:
  • Fixed some problems in fork and execve usage in case of command failure (sslstrip)
  • Fixed dropping privileges for remote_browser plugin ran as root
  • Fixed infinite loop when a http GET was issued on the attacker browser, while remote_browser was active
  • Fixed some "atexit" bad references
  • Fixed plugin load on text interface, if no number were entered
  • Fixed problem spotted when ethtool wasn't installed on the machine
  • Fixed old "ethereal" references
  • Fixed missing newlines in printf
  • Switching to ps2pdf as default (from ps2pdf13), it should point to ps2pdf14 on all distros
  • Fix cmake file, dropped MACPORTS_BASE_DIRECTORY
  • Fix problem in "stopping attacks" window not properly shown in gtk
  • Fix problem in wrong pcap file saving
  • Fix issue in send_udp function
  • Fix problem in libnet rc detection
  • Fix restore ip_forward by retrying up to 5 times
  • Fix socket issues
  • Fix for hex format display
  • New send_tcp function, taking payload and length
  • Fixed memory leak in remote browser plugin
  • Fixed comparison bug in ec_decode
  • Fixed UI input for GTK
  • Fixed some memory leaks
  • Fixed man pages and AUTHORS file
  • Fixes in sslstrip plugin
  • Many etter.dns fixes
  • Many documentation fixes
  • A ton of refactors/fixes in Cmake scripts
  • Fix GTK crash when scanning hosts
  • Fix build failure on Mac OS X 10.6
  • Crash fix in target selection
  • Disabled UID change for remote browser plugin
  • Fixed remote browser plugin
  • A ton of fixes in protocols and dissectors (dhcp, http, ppp, mpls)
  • New Features:
  • New ettercap logo
  • Renamed help menu to "?", to avoid double "H" shortcut
  • New WARN_MSG warning message
  • Added message in DHCP spoofing when no mitm has started
  • New horizontal scrollbar for messages in gtk view
  • Disabled offload warning messages (only in Release mode)
  • New ettercap-pkexec, policy and ettercap.desktop files for launching ettercap -G as a normal user with sudo privileges
  • Automatic host list refresh in GTK GUI after scanning
  • New fraggle plugin attack
  • New fields in etter.fields file
  • Cherry picked debian patches (svg icon)
  • Added content print on http dissector
  • Added support for negative dns replies
  • Creation of (experimental) unit tests
  • Creation of (experimental) libettercap
  • Now you can build just the ettercap library (libettercap) without any GUIs
  • Added travis-ci support
  • DNS spoofing for IPv6 addresses
  • PDF Docs generation is not optional
  • Added SRV query handling to DNS spoof
  • New mDNS spoof plugin
  • New low level decoders
  • New decoder for ip over pppoe
  • Added PPP DLT to interfaces
  • Add experimental Lua support to Ettercap
  • New Bundle libnet and curl
  • Full support for wifi decrypting (wep and wpa)
  • Removed:
  • Disabled update feature (not working anymore and not secure)
  • Deprecated napster dissector

New in Ettercap 0.7.6 (Apr 4, 2013)

  • Bug Fix:
  • Fixed some parsing errors
  • Fixes to TN3270 dissector and SSL Strip
  • PostgreSQL dissector: Update output format to reflect release syntax or John the Ripper 1.7.9-Jumbo-8. The old format is still supported, but deprecated.
  • Fixed memory leak in SSL Strip plugin
  • Fixed check in invalid ip header
  • Fixed QoS packets handling (they aren't dropped anymore)
  • Fix in o5logon Heap Corruption
  • New and updated OUI file
  • Some memory leaks fixed
  • Fixed some bugs in return values and fstat failures handling
  • Fixed a bug in some password display (didn't get null terminated)
  • Many fixes in gcc warnings when building
  • Better cmake module to find curl and libnet
  • Fixed bug in filters load
  • Fixes in HTTP and HTTPs protocols
  • Fixed UI deadlock
  • Fixes in tcp and http handling (infinite loop and crash)
  • Better reads in BGP to avoid invalid reads
  • New Features:
  • New logo
  • Added ascii FQDN support to DHCP ACK
  • Added UA parsing to http packets
  • Added support for IPv4 and IPv6 Tunnels
  • New mDNS dissector
  • Added PPI support (per packet information) for wireless captures
  • Ensure that we find required packages with cmake
  • New clean-all cmake target
  • Print a message when done reading PCAP file
  • Removed:
  • Removed 'u' and 'p' fields from etter.fields file

New in Ettercap 0.7.4 (Dec 5, 2011)

  • fixed resource depletion issue
  • buffer access out-of-bounds issues
  • fixed DNS dissector not working on 64bit systems
  • multiple buffer overflows
  • multiple memory leaks
  • multiple files with obsolete code
  • fixed SEND L3 errors experienced by some users
  • fixed a compilation error under Mac OS X Lion
  • updated build system