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Report a false positive

Rule Category

PROTOCOL-POP -- Snort has detected traffic that may indicate the presence of the pop protocol or vulnerabilities in the pop protocol on the network.

Alert Message

PROTOCOL-POP EXPLOIT x86 BSD overflow

Rule Explanation

Buffer overflow in POP servers based on BSD/Qualcomm's qpopper allows remote attackers to gain root access using a long PASS command.

What To Look For

This rule alerts on a buffer overflow exploit attempts against qpopper.

Known Usage

No public information

False Positives

No known false positives

Contributors

Cisco Talos Intelligence Group

Rule Groups

No rule groups

CVE

CVE-1999-0006

Rule Vulnerability

Buffer Overflow

Buffer Overflows occur when a memory location is filled past its expected boundaries. Computer attackers target systems without proper terminating conditions on buffers, which then write the additional information in other locations in memory, overwriting what is there. This could corrupt the data, making the system behave erratically or crash. The new information could include malicious executable code, which might be executed.

CVE Additional Information

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CVE-1999-0006
 Loading description

MITRE ATT&CK Framework

Tactic: Command and Control

Technique: Application Layer Protocol

For reference, see the MITRE ATT&CK vulnerability types here: https://attack.mitre.org