openSUSE 10 Security Update : snort (snort-1598)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 27448

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update fixes an evasion attack on URL parsing. The faulty code is in the http_inspect preprocessor. (CVE-2006-2769)

Solution

Update the affected snort package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 27448

File Name: suse_snort-1598.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/17/2007

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:snort, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:10.1

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Patch Publication Date: 6/10/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-2769