Multiple Cisco products are affected by a vulnerability in the Snort 3 Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) Detection Engine that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause the Snort 3 Detection Engine to restart, resulting in an interruption of packet inspection.
This vulnerability is due to incomplete error checking when Snort 3 parses GRE packets. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted GRE packet to a targeted device to be parsed by Snort. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the Snort 3 Detection Engine to restart unexpectedly, resulting in a DoS condition.
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| Description | Multiple Cisco products are affected by a vulnerability in the Snort 3 Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) Detection Engine that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause the Snort 3 Detection Engine to restart, resulting in an interruption of packet inspection. This vulnerability is due to incomplete error checking when Snort 3 parses GRE packets. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted GRE packet to a targeted device to be parsed by Snort. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the Snort 3 Detection Engine to restart unexpectedly, resulting in a DoS condition. | |
| Title | Multiple Cisco Products Snort 3 Generic Routing Encapsulation Denial of Service Vulnerabilities | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-128 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: cisco
Published: 2026-10-21T16:12:29.897Z
Updated: 2026-10-22T19:11:03.271Z
Reserved: 2025-10-08T11:59:15.393Z
Link: CVE-2026-20179
Updated: 2026-10-22T13:37:19.670Z
Status : Awaiting Analysis
Published: 2026-10-21T17:18:27.340
Modified: 2026-10-22T14:17:40.290
Link: CVE-2026-20179
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