Thursday, August 13, 2015

Snort Subscriber Rule Set Update for 08/13/2015, Apple Quicktime Vulnerabilities

Just released:
Snort Subscriber Rule Set Update for 08/13/2015


We welcome the introduction of the newest rule release from Talos. In this release we introduced 9 new rules and made modifications to 27 additional rules.

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

Talos's rule release:
Apple QuickTime Vulnerabilities CVE-2015-3788 through CVE-2015-3792: Apple QuickTime for Windows suffers from programming errors that may lead to remote code execution. 
A previously released rule will detect attacks targeting these vulnerabilities and has been updated with the appropriate reference information. It is included in this release and is identified with GID 1, SID 12746. 
New rules to detect attacks targeting these vulnerabilities are also included in this release and are identified with GID 1, SIDs 35560 through 35568. 
Talos has also added and modified multiple rules in the browser-ie, browser-other, file-flash, file-image, file-multimedia, file-office, netbios, os-windows, protocol-icmp and server-other rule sets to provide coverage for emerging threats from these technologies.


In order to subscribe now to Talos'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 https://www.snort.org/products. Make sure and stay up to date to catch the most emerging threats!