Cisco · Snort · CVE-2006-6931
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions:
Snort versions prior to 2.6.1
Description:
The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in CPU consumption and detection outage, via crafted network traffic. This is achieved through a backtracking attack during predicate evaluation in rule matching for certain rules.
Recommendations:
For versions prior to 2.6.1, update to version 2.6.1 or later to resolve the issue.