Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.58093
Category:	Mandrake Local Security Checks
Title:	Mandrake Security Advisory MDKSA-2007:051 (snort)
Summary:	NOSUMMARY
Description:	Description: The remote host is missing an update to snort announced via advisory MDKSA-2007:051. 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: 2006.0, 2007.0, Corporate 4.0, Multi Network Firewall 2.0 Solution: To upgrade automatically use MandrakeUpdate or urpmi. The verification of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you. http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=MDKSA-2007:051 Risk factor : Medium CVSS Score: 5.0
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2006-6931 BugTraq ID: 21991 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21991 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200702-03.xml http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:051 http://www.acsac.org/2006/abstracts/54.html http://www.acsac.org/2006/advance_program.html http://www.acsac.org/2006/papers/54.pdf http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~smithr/pubs/acsac2006.pdf http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~smithr/pubs/randy_smith_acsac2006.zip http://lists.immunitysec.com/pipermail/dailydave/2007-January/003954.html http://www.osvdb.org/32096 http://securitytracker.com/id?1017508 http://secunia.com/advisories/23716 http://secunia.com/advisories/24164 http://secunia.com/advisories/24338 XForce ISS Database: snort-rule-matching-dos(31430) https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/31430
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