Security Advisory

CVE-2016-1417

8.8
HIGH

Vulnerability Description

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.
Published Date January 23, 2017
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory