"Remote attackers may exploit the buffer overflow condition to run
arbitrary code on a Snort sensor with the privileges of the Snort IDS
process, which typically runs as the superuser. The vulnerable
preprocessor is enabled by default. It is not necessary to establish
an actual connection to a RPC portmapper service to exploit this
vulnerability."
Read the full advisory at:
http://www.iss.net/issEn/delivery/xforce/alertdetail.jsp?oid=21951
SOLUTION
It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running
net-analyzer/snort upgrade to snort-1.9.1 as follows:
emerge sync
emerge -u snort
emerge clean
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aliz (at) gentoo (dot) org [email concealed] - GnuPG key is available at http://cvs.gentoo.org/~aliz
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GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200303-6.1
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PACKAGE : snort
SUMMARY : buffer overflow
DATE : 2003-03-06 10:59 UTC
EXPLOIT : remote
VERSIONS AFFECTED : <1.9.1
FIXED VERSION : =>1.9.1
CVE : CAN-2003-0033
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- - From advisory:
"Remote attackers may exploit the buffer overflow condition to run
arbitrary code on a Snort sensor with the privileges of the Snort IDS
process, which typically runs as the superuser. The vulnerable
preprocessor is enabled by default. It is not necessary to establish
an actual connection to a RPC portmapper service to exploit this
vulnerability."
Read the full advisory at:
http://www.iss.net/issEn/delivery/xforce/alertdetail.jsp?oid=21951
SOLUTION
It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running
net-analyzer/snort upgrade to snort-1.9.1 as follows:
emerge sync
emerge -u snort
emerge clean
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aliz (at) gentoo (dot) org [email concealed] - GnuPG key is available at http://cvs.gentoo.org/~aliz
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