There were two changes made to the
snort.conf in this release.The addition of the FILE_DATA_PORTS variable
# List of file data ports for file inspection
portvar FILE_DATA_PORTS [$HTTP_PORTS,110,143]
As well as the inclusion of the file-identify.rules category
include $RULE_PATH/file-identify.rules
In VRT's rule release:
The Sourcefire VRT has added and modified multiple rules in the backdoor, blacklist, chat, deleted, dos, exploit, file-identify, ftp, misc, multimedia, policy, specific threats, spyware-put, web-activex, and web-misc rule sets to provide coverage for emerging threats from these technologies.
This release introduces the file-identify.rules category. The purpose of this category is to standardize the structure of rules that set a flowbit used to identify file downloading activities. A new port variable, FILE_DATA_PORTS, accompanies this category and contains a ports list used by these rules to identify the download of file types.
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