Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Sourcefire VRT Certified Snort Rules Update for 10/08/2013, MSTuesday

Just released:
Sourcefire VRT Certified Snort Rules Update for 10/08/2013

We welcome the introduction of the newest rule release for today from the VRT. In this release we introduced 71 new rules and made modifications to 61 additional rules.

There were no changes made to the snort.conf in this release.

The VRT would like to thank the following individuals for their contributions, their rules are included in the Community Ruleset:

Avery Tarasov:
28147
28148
28152
28153
28154
28155
28156
28192
28193

In VRT's rule release:
Microsoft Security Advisory MS13-080:
Internet Explorer suffers from programming errors that may lead to
remote code execution.

Rules to detect attacks targeting these vulnerabilities are included in
this release and are identified with GID 1, SIDs 28151, 28158 through
28160, 28163, 28191, 28204, and 28207 through 28208.

Microsoft Security Advisory MS13-082:
Programming errors in the .NET Framework may lead to remote code
execution.

Rules to detect attacks targeting these vulnerabilities are included in
this release and are identified with GID 1, SIDs 28161 through 28162
and 28202 through 28203.

Microsoft Security Advisory MS13-084:
Microsoft SharePoint Server suffers from a coding error that may lead
to remote code execution.

A rule to detect attacks targeting this vulnerability is included in
this release and is identified with GID 1, SID 28201.

Microsoft Security Advisory MS13-086:
Microsoft Word suffers from coding errors that may lead to remote code
execution.

Rules to detect attacks targeting these vulnerabilities are included in
this release and are identified with GID 1, SIDs 28205 and 28206.


The Sourcefire VRT has added and modified multiple rules in the
blacklist, browser-ie, browser-plugins, exploit-kit, file-image,
file-office, file-other, indicator-compromise, malware-cnc,
protocol-voip, pua-adware, server-mail and server-webapp 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!