This host has Snort installed and is prone to Denial of Service vulnerability.

Successful exploitation could allow attacker to crash an affected application, creating a denial of service condition. Impact Level: Application

Upgrade to Snort version 2.8.5.1 or later For updates, Refer http://www.snort.org/downloads

This flaw is caused by an error when processing malformed IPv6 packets when the application is compiled with the '--enable-ipv6' option and is running in verbose mode (-v).

Snort version prior to 2.8.5.1 on Linux.

• http://secunia.com/advisories/37135
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3014
• http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/53912
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530863

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Updated on 2015-03-25