Friday, December 21, 2012

Sourcefire VRT Certified Snort Rules Update for 12/20/2012

Just released: Sourcefire VRT Certified Snort Rules Update for 12/20/2012

We welcome the introduction of the newest rule release for today from the VRT. In this release we introduced 64 new rules and made modifications to 33 additional rules, in what will most likely be the last update of the year.

There were several changes made to the snort.conf in this release.

HTTP_PORTS, Stream5, and http_inspect ports were updated as such:

portvar HTTP_PORTS [80,81,311,383,591,593,901,1220,1414,1741,1830,2301,2381,2809,3037,3128,3702,4343,4848,5250,6988,7001,7144,7145,7510,7777,7779,8000,8008,8014,8028,8080,8088,8090,8118,8123,8180,8181,8243,8280,8300,8800,8888,8899,9000,9060,9080,9090,9091,9443,9999,11371,34443,34444,41080,50002,55555]

ports both 80 81 311 383 443 465 563 591 593 636 901 989 992 993 994 995 1220 1414 1830 2301 2381 2809 3037 3128 3702 4343 4848 5250 6988 7907 7001 7144 7145 7510 7802 7777 7779 7917 7918 7919 7920 8000 8008 8014 8028 8080 8088 8090 8118 8123 8180 8243 8280 8300 8800 8888 8899 9000 9060 9080 9090 9091 9443 9999 11371 34443 34444 41080 50002 55555

ports { 80 81 311 383 591 593 901 1220 1414 1741 1830 2301 2381 2809 3037 3128 3702 4343 4848 5250 6988 7001 7144 7145 7510 7777 7779 8000 8008 8014 8028 8080 8088 8090 8118 8123 8180 8181 8243 8280 8300 8800 8888 8899 9000 9060 9080 9090 9091 9443 9999 11371 34443 34444 41080 50002 55555 }

In VRT's rule release:
The Sourcefire VRT has added and modified multiple rules in the app-detect, blacklist, browser-ie, browser-plugins, deleted, dos, exploit-kit, file-identify, file-image, file-multimedia, file-office, indicator-obfuscation, malware-backdoor, malware-cnc, malware-other, netbios, scada, server-mail, server-other and web-client rule sets to provide coverage for emerging threats from these technologies.


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