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CVE-2005-3252
Stack-based buffer overflow in the Back Orifice (BO) preprocessor for Snort before 2.4.3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code…
High7.5EPSS 83.9%
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- mitre
Description
Stack-based buffer overflow in the Back Orifice (BO) preprocessor for Snort before 2.4.3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted UDP packet.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 83.9% · top 0.3% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (15)
- VU#175500 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- 20051025 Snort's BO pre-processor exploit (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
- http://www130.nortelnetworks.com/cgi-bin/eserv/cs/main.jsp?cscat=BLTNDETAIL&DocumentOID=362187&RenditionID= (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 15131 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- ADV-2005-2138 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 17559 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 20051018 Snort Back Orifice Parsing Remote Code Execution (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_ISSx_transferred
- 20034 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 20051101 Snort Back Orifice Preprocessor Exploit (Win32 targets) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
- http://www.snort.org/docs/change_logs/2.4.3/Changelog.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 17220 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://www130.nortelnetworks.com/cgi-bin/eserv/cs/main.jsp?cscat=BLTNDETAIL&DocumentOID=363396&RenditionID= (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- TA05-291A (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
- 1015070 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 17255 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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