CVE-2000-1226: Snort

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Snort 1.6, when running in straight ASCII packet logging mode or IDS mode with straight decoded ASCII packet logging selected, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) by sending non-IP protocols that Snort does not know about, as demonstrated by an nmap protocol scan.

Affected products

• Snort Snort: version 1.6 only

Published 2000-12-31. Last modified 2026-09-23.