Algorithmic complexity vulnerability in Snort before 2.6.1, during predicate evaluation in rule matching for certain rules, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and detection outage) via crafted network traffic, aka a "backtracking attack."
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References | () http://lists.immunitysec.com/pipermail/dailydave/2007-January/003954.html - | |
References | () http://secunia.com/advisories/23716 - | |
References | () http://secunia.com/advisories/24164 - | |
References | () http://secunia.com/advisories/24338 - | |
References | () http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200702-03.xml - | |
References | () http://securitytracker.com/id?1017508 - | |
References | () http://www.acsac.org/2006/abstracts/54.html - | |
References | () http://www.acsac.org/2006/advance_program.html - | |
References | () http://www.acsac.org/2006/papers/54.pdf - Vendor Advisory | |
References | () http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~smithr/pubs/acsac2006.pdf - Vendor Advisory | |
References | () http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~smithr/pubs/randy_smith_acsac2006.zip - | |
References | () http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:051 - | |
References | () http://www.osvdb.org/32096 - | |
References | () http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21991 - | |
References | () http://www.snort.org/pub-bin/snortnews.cgi - | |
References | () https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/31430 - |
Information
Published : 2007-01-16 23:28
Updated : 2024-11-21 00:23
NVD link : CVE-2006-6931
Mitre link : CVE-2006-6931
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2006-6931
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