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Alpine Linux: CVE-2023-20246: Vulnerability in Snort

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2023-20246: Vulnerability in Snort

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
11/01/2023
Created
03/22/2024
Added
03/21/2024
Modified
03/22/2024

Description

Multiple Cisco products are affected by a vulnerability in Snort access control policies that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass the configured policies on an affected system. This vulnerability is due to a logic error that occurs when the access control policies are being populated. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by establishing a connection to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to bypass configured access control rules on the affected system.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-snort

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