Sourcefire VRT Certified Snort Rules Update for 11/12/2013
We welcome the introduction of the newest rule release from the VRT. In this release we introduced 56 new rules and made modifications to 610 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:
Avery Tarasov:
28541
28542
28543
In VRT's rule release:
Details:
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS13-088:
Internet Explorer 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 28490 through 28492,
28494 through 28496, 28504, and 28522 through 28524.
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS13-089:
A programming error exists in the Microsoft Windows graphics device
interface that may lead to remote code execution.
Rules to detect attacks targeting this vulnerability are included in
this release and are identified with GID 1, SIDs 28509 through 28521.
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS13-090:
A programming error exists in an ActiveX control that may lead to
remote code execution.
Rules to detect attacks targeting this vulnerability are included in
this release and are identified with GID 1, SIDs 28493, and 28505
through 28506.
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS13-091:
Microsoft Office contains 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 28498 through 28499,
and 28502 through 28503.
The Sourcefire VRT has also added and modified multiple rules in the
blacklist, browser-ie, browser-plugins, exploit-kit, file-identify,
file-office, file-other, malware-cnc, malware-other, pua-adware and
web-client rule sets to provide coverage for emerging threats from
these technologies.
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