We welcome the introduction of the newest rule release for today from the VRT. In this release we introduced 47 new rules and made modifications to 380 additional rules.
There were no changes made to the
snort.conf in this release.
In VRT's rule release:
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS12-071: Microsoft Internet Explorer contains programming errors that may allow a remote attacker to execute code on an affected system. Rules to detect attacks targeting these vulnerabilities are included in this release and are identified with GID 1, SIDs 24653, 24654, 24660, 24661, 24662 and 24663.
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS12-072: Microsoft Briefcase contains programming errors that may allow a remote attacker to execute code on an affected system. A rule to detect attacks targeting these vulnerabilities is included in this release and is identified with GID 3, SID 24671.
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS12-074: The Microsoft .NET framework contains programming errors that may allow a remote attacker to execute code on an affected system. Rules to detect attacks targeting these vulnerabilities are included in this release and are identified with GID 1, SIDs 24652, 24655, 24656, 24664 and 24665.
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS12-075: Some Microsoft kernel mode drivers contain programming errors that may allow a remote attacker to execute code on an affected system. Rules to detect attacks targeting these vulnerabilities are included in this release and are identified with GID 1, SIDs 24649 and 24650.
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS12-076: Microsoft Excel contains programming errors that may allow a remote attacker to execute code on an affected system. Rules to detect attacks targeting these vulnerabilities are included in this release and are identified with GID 1, SIDs 24657, 24658, 24659, 24673, 24674, and GID 3, SID 24666.
Additionally, a previously released rule will also detect attacks targeting these vulnerabilities and is identified with GID 1, SID 16654.
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