Gentoo: GLSA-200702-03 Normal Severity: Snort Denial of Service

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 ======= Snort contains a vulnerability in the rule matching algorithm that could result in a Denial of Service.
Background ========= Snort is a widely deployed intrusion detection program.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-analyzer/snort < 2.6.1.2 >= 2.6.1.2
========== 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...