A vulnerability has been identified in Snort, which could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service. This flaw is due to an error in the "PrintTcpOptions()" function [log.c] that does not properly handle specially crafted TCP packets containing malformed SACK options, which could be exploited by remote attackers to crash a vulnerable application. Note : This vulnerability exists only when snort is run in verbose mode.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Alejandro Hernández Hernández
ChangeLog
2005-09-12 : Initial release
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