{"id":"CVE-2026-76489","aliases":["EUVD-2026-107352","GHSA-4m4m-399q-8257"],"status":"published","title":"Multiple Cisco Products Snort 3 Generic File Processing Memory Exhaustion Denial of Service Vulnerability","description":"Multiple Cisco products are affected by a vulnerability in the memory management implementation of Snort 3 that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause the Snort 3 Detection Engine to restart, resulting in an interruption of packet inspection.\r\n\r\nThis vulnerability is due to incomplete error checking when Snort 3 processes files, which could cause unreleased memory. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a large number of files to be processed. 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