Friday, January 5, 2018

Snort Subscriber Rule Set Update for 01/04/2018, Release #2, Intel Vulnerabilities

Snort Subscriber Rule Set Update for 01/04/2018, Release #2, Intel Vulnerabilities

We welcome the introduction of the newest rule release from Talos. In this release we introduced 12 new rules of which 0 are Shared Object rules and made modifications to 0 additional rules of which 0 are Shared Object rules.

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


Talos's rule release:
Spectre and Meltdown CVE-2017-5753, CVE-2017-5715 and CVE-2017-5754: A design flaw exists in modern CPUs that may lead to information disclosure. 
Rules to detect attacks targeting these vulnerabilities are included in this release and are identified with GID 1, SIDs 45357 through 45368.


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://snort.org/products#rule_subscriptions. Make sure and stay up to date to catch the most emerging threats!