Snort

Pierluigi Paganini April 21, 2022
CVE-2022-20685 flaw in the Modbus preprocessor of the Snort makes it unusable

CVE-2022-20685 flaw in the Modbus preprocessor of the Snort detection engine could trigger a DoS condition and make it ineffective against malicious traffic. Snort is a free open source network intrusion detection system (IDS) and intrusion prevention system (IPS)  which is currently developed by Cisco. The software performs real-time traffic analysis and packet logging on Internet Protocol (IP) networks, protocol analysis, content searching and […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 06, 2021
Multiple Cisco products exposed to DoS attack due to a Snort issue

Cisco announced that a vulnerability in the Snort detection engine exposes several of its products to denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. Cisco announced this week that several of its products are exposed to denial-of-service (DoS) attacks due to a vulnerability in the Snort detection engine. The vulnerability resides in the Ethernet Frame Decoder of the Snort detection […]