CVE-2006-6931

CVE Database · CVE-2006-6931

CVE-2006-6931

· N/AModified

CVSS v3.1

N/A

EPSS

2.31%

Published

Jan 16, 2007

Modified

Apr 22, 2026

Public PoC / Exploit

All weaponized →

No public PoC or exploit code indexed for this CVE.

Links to public security research (Exploit-DB, Nuclei, Trickest, GitHub) for defensive use only.

Description

Algorithmic complexity vulnerability in Snort before 2.6.1, during predicate evaluation in rule matching for certain rules, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and detection outage) via crafted network traffic, aka a "backtracking attack."

Affected Products (1)

snort · snortvulnerable

References (20)

http://lists.immunitysec.com/pipermail/dailydave/2007-January/003954.html

http://secunia.com/advisories/23716

http://secunia.com/advisories/24164

http://secunia.com/advisories/24338

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200702-03.xml

http://securitytracker.com/id?1017508

http://www.acsac.org/2006/abstracts/54.html

http://www.acsac.org/2006/advance_program.html

http://www.acsac.org/2006/papers/54.pdf