>> Snort Back Orifice Parsing Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Title : Snort Back Orifice Parsing Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2005-2138 CVE ID : CVE-2005-3252
Rated as : Critical
Remotely Exploitable : Yes Locally Exploitable : Yes Release Date : 2005-10-18
Technical Description
A vulnerability has been identified in Snort, which could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands. This flaw is due to a stack overflow error in the Back Orifice pre-processor when determining the direction (to or from server) of a specially crafted UDP packet, which could be exploited by remote unauthenticated attackers to compromise a vulnerable system or network monitored by Snort.
