SuSE9 Security Update : snort (YOU Patch Number 11055)

This update fixes an evasion attack on URL parsing. The faulty code is in the httpinspect preprocessor. CVE-2006-2769 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C Novell, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc'; include'compat.inc'; if description...

CVE-2006-2769: Undefined Security Weakness

The HTTP Inspect preprocessor httpinspect in Snort 2.4.0 through 2.4.4 allows remote attackers to bypass "uricontent" rules via a carriage return \r after the URL and before the HTTP declaration...