Firestorm IDS IP Options Decoding Denial Of Service Vulnerability

BID:4871

Info

Firestorm IDS IP Options Decoding Denial Of Service Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 4871
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: May 28 2002 12:00AM
Updated: May 28 2002 12:00AM
Credit: Vulnerability announced by Firestorm IDS development team.
Vulnerable: scaramanga Firestorm IDS 0.4.2
scaramanga Firestorm IDS 0.4.1
scaramanga Firestorm IDS 0.4 .0
Not Vulnerable: scaramanga Firestorm IDS 0.4.3

Discussion

Firestorm IDS IP Options Decoding Denial Of Service Vulnerability

Firestorm IDS is a freely available, open source intrusion detection package. It is maintained by public domain.

Firestorm IDS may become unstable when handling certain IP options. It has been reported that Firestorm IDS can be caused to crash when it has received traffic with specific IP options set. This could result in a denial of service.

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