Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Sourcefire VRT Certified Snort Rules Update for 01/22/2013

Just released: Sourcefire VRT Certified Snort Rules Update for 01/22/2013

We welcome the introduction of the newest rule release for today from the VRT. In this release we introduced 7 new rules and made modifications to 8 additional rules.

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

The VRT would like to thank Avery Tarasov for his work on sid:
25511

In VRT's rule release:
The Sourcefire VRT has added and modified multiple rules in the exploit-kit and netbios rule sets to provide coverage for emerging threats from these technologies.
The Sourcefire VRT has also fixed an integer overflow vulnerability in GID 3, SID 20275. This was reported by Fermin J. Serna and Tavis Ormandy.


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