Gentoo: GLSA-200702-03 Normal Severity: Snort Denial of Service
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February 13, 2007
Snort contains a vulnerability in the rule matching algorithm that could result in a Denial of Service.
Summary
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200702-03
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: Normal
Title: Snort: Denial of Service
Date: February 13, 2007
Bugs: #161632
ID: 200702-03
Synopsis
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Snort contains a vulnerability in the rule matching algorithm that
could result in a Denial of Service.
Background
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Snort is a widely deployed intrusion detection program.
Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 net-analyzer/snort < 2.6.1.2 >= 2.6.1.2
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Randy Smith, Christian Estan and Somesh Jha discovered that the rule
matching algorithm of Snort can be exploited in a way known as a
"backtracking attack" to perform numerous time-consuming ope...
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