Sourcefire VRT Certified Snort Rules Update for 09/10/2013
We welcome the introduction of the newest rule release for today from the VRT. In this release we introduced 63 new rules and made modifications to 30 additional rules.
There were no changes made to the
snort.conf in this release.
The VRT would like to thank the following individuals for their contributions, their rules are included in the Community Ruleset:
Yaser Mansour:
27801
27802
27803
27804
Paul Bottomley:
27805
In VRT's rule release:
Synopsis: The Sourcefire VRT is aware of vulnerabilities affecting products from
Microsoft Corporation.
Details:
Microsoft Security Advisory MS13-067:
A programming error in Microsoft Sharepoint could lead to remote code
execution.
Rules to detect attacks targeting these vulnerabilities are included in
this release and are identified with GID 1, SIDs 27818 through 27819,
27823, and 27826 through 27828.
Microsoft Security Advisory MS13-069:
Internet Explorer suffers from programming errors that may lead to
remote code execution.
Rules to detect attacks targeting these vulnerabilities are included in
this release and are identified with GID 1, SIDs 27829 through 27846.
Microsoft Security Advisory MS13-071:
A programming error in Microsoft's Windows Theme File could lead to
remote code execution.
A rule to detect attacks targeting this vulnerability is included in
this release and is identified with GID 1, SID 27822.
Microsoft Security Advisory MS13-072:
Microsoft Office suffers from coding errors that may lead to remote
code execution.
Rules to detect attacks targeting these vulnerabilities are included in
this release and are identified with GID 1, SIDs 27850 through 27859.
Microsoft Security Advisory MS13-073:
A programming error in Microsoft Excel could lead to remote code
execution.
Rules to detect attacks targeting these vulnerabilities are included in
this release and are identified with GID 1, SIDs 27820 through 27821
and 27824 through 27825.
Microsoft Security Advisory MS13-078:
A coding error in Microsoft FrontPage could lead to information
disclosure.
A previously released rules will detect attacks targeting this
vulnerability and has been updated with the appropriate reference
information. It is included in this release and is identified with GID
1, SID 26626.
Microsoft Security Advisory MS13-079:
Programming errors in the .NET Framework and Silverlight may lead to
remote code execution.
A rule to detect attacks targeting this vulnerability is included in
this release and is identified with GID 1, SID 27860.
The Sourcefire VRT has added and modified multiple rules in the
blacklist, browser-ie, deleted, exploit-kit, file-multimedia,
file-office, file-other, indicator-compromise, malware-cnc,
malware-other, os-windows, protocol-voip, server-oracle and
server-webapp rule sets to provide coverage for emerging threats from
these technologies.
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