PT-2009-5913 · Cisco · Snort

Laurent Gaffié · Published 2009-10-28 · Updated 2017-08-17 · CVE-2009-3641

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Snort versions prior to 2.8.5.1

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in an application crash, by sending a crafted IPv6 packet using either the TCP or ICMP protocol when the -v option is enabled.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2.8.5.1, update to version 2.8.5.1 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider disabling the -v option to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Exploit

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2009-3641

Affected Products

Snort

References · 17

• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/9969 · Exploit
• 🔥 http://securityfocus.com/bid/36795 · Exploit
• 🔥 http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2009/Oct/299 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530863 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/33306 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-3641 · Security Note
• http://vrt-sourcefire.blogspot.com/2009/10/snort-2851-release.html · Patch
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2009-3641 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/37135 · Vendor Advisory
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3014 · Vendor Advisory
• http://dl.snort.org/snort-current/release_notes_2851.txt · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2009-3641 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1023076 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/10/25/5 · Note
• http://osvdb.org/59159 · Note