Sourcefire VRT Certified Snort Rules Update for 12/10/2013
We welcome the introduction of the newest rule release from the VRT. In this release we introduced 37 new rules and made modifications to 25 additional rules.
There were no changes made to the
snort.conf in this release.In VRT's rule release:
Microsoft Security Bulletin 2914486:
A programming error in the Microsoft Windows Kernel-Mode NDProxy Driver
could lead to an escalation of privilege.
Rules to detect attacks targeting these vulnerabilities are included in
this release and are identified with GID 1, SIDs 28867 through 28872.
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS13-096:
A coding deficiency exists in Microsoft Office TIFF processing that may
lead to remote code execution.
Previously released rules will detect attacks targeting this
vulnerability and have been updated with the appropriate reference
information. They are included in this release and are identified with
GID 1, SIDs 28464 through 28473, and 28525 through 28526.
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS13-097:
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 28862 through 28863,
28865 through 28866, 28873 through 28878, and 28880.
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS13-099:
The Microsoft Scripting Runtime Object Library suffers from a
programming error 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 28881 through 28882.
The Sourcefire VRT has added and modified multiple rules in the
blacklist, browser-ie, browser-other, browser-plugins, exploit-kit,
file-office, file-pdf, malware-cnc, malware-other, os-windows and
web-client rule sets to provide coverage for emerging threats from
these technologies.
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