Vulnerability in Snort DCE/RPC Preprocessor

I just found out about the vulnerability in Snort DCE/RPC Preprocessor. This preprocessor is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow that could potentially allow attackers to execute code with the same privileges as the Snort binary.

It affected the followings :

• Snort 2.6.1, 2.6.1.1, and 2.6.1.2
• Snort 2.7.0 beta 1

Recommended Actions:

• Open-source Snort 2.6.1.x users are advised to upgrade to Snort 2.6.1.3 (or later) immediately.
• Open-source Snort 2.7 beta users are advised to mitigate this issue by disabling the DCE/RPC preprocessor in snort.conf file. This issue will be resolved in Snort 2.7 beta 2.