Sourcefire VRT Certified Snort Rules Update for 04/25/2013

Sourcefire VRT Certified Snort Rules Update for 04/25/2013


We welcome the introduction of the newest rule release from the VRT. In this release we introduced 26 new rules and made modifications to 12 additional rules.

There were changes made to the snort.conf in this release.

The following ports were added to the HTTP_PORTS, stream5 "both" attribute, and http_inspect's "ports" attribute line:

82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
3057
6080

The lines now look like this (for easy copy and paste):

HTTP_PORTS:
portvar HTTP_PORTS [80,81,82,83,84,85,86,87,88,89,311,383,591,593,631,901,1220,1414,1741,1830,2301,2381,2809,3037,3057,3128,3702,4343,4848,5250,6080,6988,7000,7001,7144,7145,7510,7777,7779,8000,8008,8014,8028,8080,8085,8088,8090,8118,8123,8180,8181,8222,8243,8280,8300,8800,8888,8899,9000,9060,9080,9090,9091,9443,9999,11371,34443,34444,41080,50002,55555] 

Stream5:
ports both 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 110 311 383 443 465 563 591 593 631 636 901 989 992 993 994 995 1220 1414 1830 2301 2381 2809 3037 3057 3128 3702 4343 4848 5250 6080 6988 7907 7000 7001 7144 7145 7510 7802 7777 7779 \ 7801 7900 7901 7902 7903 7904 7905 7906 7908 7909 7910 7911 7912 7913 7914 7915 7916 \ 7917 7918 7919 7920 8000 8008 8014 8028 8080 8085 8088 8090 8118 8123 8180 8222 8243 8280 8300 8800 8888 8899 9000 9060 9080 9090 9091 9443 9999 11371 34443 34444 41080 50002 55555 

http_inspect:
ports { 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 311 383 591 593 631 901 1220 1414 1741 1830 2301 2381 2809 3037 3057 3128 3702 4343 4848 5250 6080 6988 7000 7001 7144 7145 7510 7777 7779 8000 8008 8014 8028 8080 8085 8088 8090 8118 8123 8180 8181 8222 8243 8280 8300 8800 8888 8899 9000 9060 9080 9090 9091 9443 9999 11371 34443 34444 41080 50002 55555 }

And as indicated here: http://blog.snort.org/2013/04/master-snortconf-configurations-have.html, the snort.conf configurations that we distribute have been updated.

In VRT's rule release:

The Sourcefire VRT has added and modified multiple rules in the browser-other, browser-plugins, exploit-kit, file-flash, file-identify, file-multimedia, file-other, file-pdf, malware-cnc, scada and server-webapp rule sets to provide coverage for emerging threats from these technologies.

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