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Snort Information for VU#175500

Date Notified:2005-10-14
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Status Summary:Vulnerable

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No statement is currently available from the vendor regarding this vulnerability.

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Addendum

Please see http://www.snort.org/pub-bin/snortnews.cgi#99

In addition, the following is from the Snort version 2.4.3 Release notes:

    2005-10-17 - Snort 2.4.3 Released
    [*] Improvements
       * Fixed possible buffer overflow in  back orifice preprocessor.
       * Added snort.conf options to bo preprocessor for finer control of
         alerting and dropping of bo traffic.
       * Added alert to detect the bo buffer overflow attack against snort.

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