Gentoo: 2003-03-06 Remote DoS - Snort Buffer Overflow Advisory
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March 6, 2003
Remote attackers may exploit the buffer overflow condition to run arbitrary code on a Snort sensor with the privileges of the Snort IDS process, which typically runs as the superus...
Summary
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From advisory:
"Remote attackers may exploit the buffer overflow condition to run arbitrary code on a Snort sensor with the privileges of the Snort IDS process, which typically runs as the superuser. The vulnerable preprocessor is enabled by default. It is not necessary to establish an actual connection to a RPC portmapper service to exploit this vulnerability."
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SOLUTION
It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running net-analyzer/snort upgrade to snort-1.9.1 as follows:
emerge sync emerge -u snort emerge clean
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PACKAGE : snort
SUMMARY : remote dos
DATE : 2003-03-06 10:59 UTC
EXPLOIT : remote
VERSIONS AFFECTED : <1.9.1 :="" fixed version>1.9.1
CVE : CAN-2003-0033
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