We welcome the introduction of the newest rule release for today from the VRT. In this release we introduced 91 new rules and made modifications to 38 additional rules.
There were no changes made to the
snort.conf in this release.
The VRT would like to thank Avery Tarasov for his work on the following SIDS:
25503
25504
25471
The VRT would also like to thank Tavis Ormandy for his work in finding a potential security issue with rule 3:20275.
From our assessment this looks like the potential impact is a DoS, however, we've been unable to cause this in our testing. We've rolled the subscriber sets to registered so everyone can download the updates. Additionally, the rule is not enabled in default policies so the exposure is limited.
In VRT's rule release:
The Sourcefire VRT has added and modified multiple rules in the app-detect, blacklist, browser-ie, dns, dos, exploit-kit, file-flash, file-identify, file-multimedia, file-office, file-other, file-pdf, indicator-obfuscation, malware-cnc, misc, netbios, os-windows, policy-social and web-client rule sets to provide coverage for emerging threats from these technologies.
In order to subscribe now to the VRT's newest rule detection functionality, you can subscribe for as low as $29 US dollars a year for personal users, be sure and see our business pricing as well at http://www.snort.org/store. Make sure and stay up to date to catch the most emerging threats!