An exploit has been published that could take advantage of a flaw in Snort, a popular open-source intrusion protection system, according to a security group. The exploit code, published to the Web by ...

Snort can be buffer overflowed. About once a year, Snort gets a buffer overflow vulnerability. Any piece of additional software in a defense strategy has to be carefully considered (e.g. Snort, ...

A software vulnerability in the widely used Snort open-source intrusion-detection system (IDS) software could allow an attacker to crash the Snort sensor or gain control of the host device on which ...