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CVE-2006-6931

CVE-2006-6931

EPSS 2.3%
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."
Affected products
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References
http://lists.immunitysec.com/pipermail/dailydave/2007-January/003954.htmlhttp://secunia.com/advisories/23716http://secunia.com/advisories/24164http://secunia.com/advisories/24338http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200702-03.xmlhttp://securitytracker.com/id?1017508https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/31430http://www.acsac.org/2006/abstracts/54.htmlhttp://www.acsac.org/2006/advance_program.htmlhttp://www.acsac.org/2006/papers/54.pdfhttp://www.cs.wisc.edu/~smithr/pubs/acsac2006.pdfhttp://www.cs.wisc.edu/~smithr/pubs/randy_smith_acsac2006.zip