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Snort DecodeTCPOptions Remote Denial Of Service Vulnerability
Snort is reported prone to a remote denial of service vulnerability. The vulnerability is reported to exist in the DecodeTCPOptions() function of 'decode.c', and is as a result of a failure to sufficiently handle malicious TCP packets. A remote attacker may trigger this vulnerability to crash a remote Snort server and in doing so may prevent subsequent malicious attacks from being detected. |
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