Security Advisory

CVE-2006-6931

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2007-01-16 23:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-07 20:42:07

Assigner mitre

State PUBLISHED

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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