CVE-2006-5276
Stack-based buffer overflow in the DCE/RPC preprocessor in Snort before 2.6.1.3, and 2.7 before beta 2; and Sourcefire Intrusion Sensor;…
- 10.0HighCVSS base score
- 79.4%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 0.4% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 5Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Stack-based buffer overflow in the DCE/RPC preprocessor in Snort before 2.6.1.3, and 2.7 before beta 2; and Sourcefire Intrusion Sensor; allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted SMB traffic.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Metasploit module and 4 Exploit-DB entries for it. A reference of the record is tagged as an exploit.
Show the exploits6
Metasploit modules1 module
- Snort 2 DCE/RPC Preprocessor Buffer Overflow (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/multi/ids/snort_dce_rpcRank gooddisclosed 19 Feb 2007
Exploit-DB4 entries
- Snort 2 - DCE/RPC Preprocessor Buffer Overflow (Metasploit) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 18723remote, multiplepublished 9 Apr 2012Verified
- Snort 2.6.1 (Linux) - DCE/RPC Preprocessor Remote Buffer Overflow (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 3609remote, linuxpublished 30 Mar 2007Verified
- Snort 2.6.1 - DCE/RPC Preprocessor Remote Buffer Overflow (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 3391remote, windowspublished 1 Mar 2007Verified
- Snort 2.6.1 - DCE/RPC Preprocessor Remote Buffer Overflow (Denial of Service) (PoC) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 3362dos, multiplepublished 23 Feb 2007Verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
- 3362 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 4 months later
· 4 months later
Published
- 17 years later
· 17 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High10.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 79.4% · top 0.4% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 10.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
24
- TA07-050A (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
- VU#196240 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- http://www116.nortelnetworks.com/pub/repository/CLARIFY/DOCUMENT/2007/08/021923-01.pdf (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- GLSA-200703-01 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- 26746 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 20070303 ERRATA: [ GLSA 200703-01 ] Snort: Remote execution of arbitrary code (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 24190 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://www.snort.org/docs/advisory-2007-02-19.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 24239 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 24272 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- ADV-2007-0656 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- smb-bo(31275) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- FEDORA-2007-2060 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- ADV-2007-0668 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 32094 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 24235 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 1017670 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 24240 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 20070219 Sourcefire Snort Remote Buffer Overflow (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_ISSx_transferred
- 22616 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://www130.nortelnetworks.com/go/main.jsp?cscat=BLTNDETAIL&DocumentOID=540173 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 3362 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=229265 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 1017669 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_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)
- EUVD EUVD-2006-5261 (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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