Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Sourcefire VRT Certified Snort Rules Update for 09/17/2013 release 2, IE 0Day

Just released:
Sourcefire VRT Certified Snort Rules Update for 09/17/2013 release 2 

We welcome the introduction of the second rule release from the VRT. In this release we introduced 6 new rules and made modifications to 9 additional rules. 
http://www.snort.org/vrt/docs/ruleset_changelogs/changes-2013-09-17_2.html

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


In VRT's rule release: 
Synopsis:
The Sourcefire VRT is aware of vulnerabilities affecting products from
Microsoft Corporation.

Details:
Microsoft Security Advisory 2887505:
A programming error in Internet Explorer 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 27943 and 27944.


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