Solution
Please Install the Updated Packages.
Insight
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.
Updated packages have been patched to address this issue.
Affected
snort on Mandriva Linux 2006.0,
Mandriva Linux 2006.0/X86_64,
Mandriva Linux 2007.0,
Mandriva Linux 2007.0/X86_64
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2006-6931 -
CVSS Base Score: 5.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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