Remote Code Execution and DLL Hijacking Vulnerability in Snort 2.9.7.0-WIN32

Remote Code Execution and DLL Hijacking Vulnerability in Snort 2.9.7.0-WIN32

CVE-2016-1417 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Snort 2.9.7.0-WIN32 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code and conduct DLL hijacking attacks via a Trojan horse tcapi.dll that is located in the same folder on a remote file share as a pcap file that is being processed.

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