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CVE-2006-6931

EPSS 3.65%
Published 16.01.2007 23:28:00
Last modified 09.04.2025 00:30:58
Source cve@mitre.org
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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 Warnungen 0 Metrics 2 CWE 0 References 19

Data is provided by the National Vulnerability Database (NVD)

Snort ≫ Snort Version <= 2.6.2

Zu dieser CVE wurde keine CISA KEV oder CERT.AT-Warnung gefunden.

EPSS Metriken
Type	Source	Score	Percentile
EPSS	FIRST.org	3.65%	0.874

CVSS Metriken
Source	Base Score	Exploit Score	Impact Score	Vector string
nvd@nist.gov	5	10	2.9	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

http://lists.immunitysec.com/pipermail/dailydave/2007-January/003954.html

http://secunia.com/advisories/23716

http://secunia.com/advisories/24164

http://secunia.com/advisories/24338

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200702-03.xml

http://securitytracker.com/id?1017508

http://www.acsac.org/2006/abstracts/54.html

http://www.acsac.org/2006/advance_program.html

http://www.acsac.org/2006/papers/54.pdf

Vendor Advisory

http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~smithr/pubs/acsac2006.pdf

Vendor Advisory

http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~smithr/pubs/randy_smith_acsac2006.zip

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:051

http://www.osvdb.org/32096

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21991

http://www.snort.org/pub-bin/snortnews.cgi

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/31430

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-6931

CVE Source (NVD)

https://cveawg.mitre.org/api/cve/CVE-2006-6931

CVE Source (JSON)

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/CVE-2006-6931

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