CVE-2021-40114

NameCVE-2021-40114
DescriptionMultiple Cisco products are affected by a vulnerability in the way the Snort detection engine processes ICMP traffic that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to improper memory resource management while the Snort detection engine is processing ICMP packets. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a series of ICMP packets through an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to exhaust resources on the affected device, causing the device to reload.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-3317-1, DSA-5354-1
Debian Bugs1021276

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
snort (PTS)stretch2.9.7.0-5vulnerable
buster (security), buster, buster (lts)2.9.20-0+deb10u1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
snortsourcestretch(unfixed)end-of-life
snortsourcebuster2.9.20-0+deb10u1DLA-3317-1
snortsourcebullseye2.9.20-0+deb11u1DSA-5354-1
snortsource(unstable)(unfixed)1021276

Notes

https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-snort-dos-s2R7W9UU

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