US-CERT Technical Cyber Security Alert TA05-291A -- Snort Back Orifice Preprocessor Buffer Overflow

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 National Cyber Alert System Technical Cyber Security Alert TA05-291A Snort Back Orifice Preprocessor Buffer Overflow Original release date: October 18, 2005 Last revised: -- Source: US-CERT Systems Affected Snort versions 2.4.0 to 2.4.2 Sourcefire...

Buffer overflow in Snort RPC preprocessor

Overview There is a buffer overflow vulnerability in the RPC preprocessing feature of Snort versions 1.8 through 1.9.0 and 2.0 beta. Description Martin Roesch, the primary Snort developer, described the vulnerability by saying:When the RPC decoder normalizes fragmented RPC records, it incorrectly...