CVE-2000-1226

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2000-12-31 · updated 2026-09-23

Description

Snort 1.6, when running in straight ASCII packet logging mode or IDS mode with straight decoded ASCII packet logging selected, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) by sending non-IP protocols that Snort does not know about, as demonstrated by an nmap protocol scan.

Affected products

Snort: 1.6

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-06/0122.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-06/0126.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-06/0122.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-06/0126.html

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