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CVE Reference: CVE-2006-6931 |
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Original Page at CVE MITRE: CVE-2006-6931 |
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Description: 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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CVE Status: Candidate |
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References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/31430 ST 1017508 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA23716 Secunia Advisory: SA24164 Secunia Advisory: SA24338 OSVDB 32096 MLIST http://lists.immunitysec.com/pipermail/dailydave/2007-January/003954.html MISC http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~smithr/pubs/randy_smith_acsac2006.zip http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~smithr/pubs/acsac2006.pdf http://www.acsac.org/2006/advance_program.html http://www.acsac.org/2006/papers/54.pdf http://www.acsac.org/2006/abstracts/54.html MANDRIVA http://frontal2.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:051 GENTOO http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200702-03.xml CONFIRM http://www.snort.org/pub-bin/snortnews.cgi BID 21991 |
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