We welcome the introduction of the newest rule release for today from the VRT. In this release we introduced 26 new rules and made modifications to 12 additional rules.
This update contains rules that detect the newest public exploits for the Ruby on Rails XML/YAML vulnerability as well as the new Oracle Java 1.7 0day circulated this morning.
There were no changes made to the
snort.conf in this release.
The VRT would like to thank Avery Tarasov for his contributions in the following rules:
25277
The VRT would also like to thank Christopher Granger for his contribution in the following rule:
25279 and for information that led to the generation of the rest of the Htran rules.
In VRT's rule release:
The Sourcefire VRT has added and modified multiple rules in the browser-firefox, browser-plugins, exploit-kit, file-flash, file-identify, file-multimedia, file-office, file-other, malware-backdoor, malware-cnc, malware-other and server-webapp rule sets to provide coverage for emerging threats from these technologies.
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