Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Snort 2.9.7.3 is now available!

Snort 2.9.7.3 is now available at http://www.snort.org/downloads in the Snort Stable Release Section.




Snort 2.9.7.3 Release Notes:
[*] New additions
  • Added PAF support for SIP based traffic
[*] Improvements
  • Resolved a backtracking issue where the 'protected_content' rule option was not matching on content following a content rule option that is not matched.
  • Resolved an issue where snort dropped privilege levels before attempting to delete its PID file created during the higher privilege level
  • Improved processing of SSLv3 traffic, IPv6 extensions, HTTPS session reassembly and normalization
  • Performance improvements for file preprocessor
  • Stability improvements for ftp_telnet preprocessor


Please start your updating engines, and drop us a line over at Snort-users with any issues.