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critical 10.0

CVE-2006-5276 in the critical feed json

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; al…

published 2007-02-20 19 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2006-5261

cvss
10.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
79.4%
EPSS 79.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99.6%
public exploits
5
Metasploit, Exploit-DB

Summary

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.

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (Metasploit exploit/multi/ids/snort_dce_rpc)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

79.44% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.6% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • Metasploit exploit/multi/ids/snort_dce_rpc Snort 2 DCE/RPC Preprocessor Buffer Overflow metasploit exploit, good rank, 2007-02-19
  • EDB-18723 Snort 2 - DCE/RPC Preprocessor Buffer Overflow (Metasploit) remote, 2012-04-09
  • EDB-3609 Snort 2.6.1 (Linux) - DCE/RPC Preprocessor Remote Buffer Overflow remote, 2007-03-30
  • EDB-3391 Snort 2.6.1 - DCE/RPC Preprocessor Remote Buffer Overflow remote, 2007-03-01
  • EDB-3362 Snort 2.6.1 - DCE/RPC Preprocessor Remote Buffer Overflow (Denial of Service) (PoC) dos, 2007-02-23

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 10.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.