CVE-2006-6931

CVE-2006-6931 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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."

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