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Snort vulnerability "wormable" but not widespread
Posted by Imhotep on October 21st, 2005


"The vulnerability exists in an update to the way the Snort intrusion
detection system handles network data produced by the BackOrifice program,
a seven-year-old remote administration tool used by online attackers to
control compromised systems."

http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11349?ref=rss

Michael

Posted by Imhotep on October 21st, 2005


Imhotep wrote:

Sorry, after reading the article it was 10 days old. Here is the update.

"Patch roundup Wednesday became a busy patching day for sys admins with the
release of Oracle's quarterly patch roundup - boasting an impressive 85
software fixes - and an update designed to defend the popular Snort open
source intrusion detection application against possible hacker attack."

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/19/patch_roundup/

Imhotep


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