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HIGH Snort CVE published 2017-01-23

CVE-2016-1417

CVE-2016-1417 is an untrusted search path issue in Snort 2.9.7.0-WIN32 on Windows. According to the NVD record, a remote attacker could trigger arbitrary code execution and DLL hijacking when Snort processes a pcap from a remote file share and a malicious tcapi.dll is present in the same folder.