Thursday, April 11, 2019

Snort 2.9.13.0 has been released

Please join us as we welcome SNORTⓇ 2.9.13.0 to the family.

The release notes for the newest version are below:

New Additions
  • Snort now supports reload on snort rules update.
  • Addition of a scenario to add a packet to blacklist verdict to ensure the new session will be allowed.
  • Handled a new pre-processor alert in case of the improper end of t HTTP header.
Improvements
  • Modified the calculation of file hash for FTP/HTTP with offset values.
  • Fixed portal authentication connection stuck in half closed state.
  • Updated UDP global timeout for a non-standard port.
This release also patched the following two vulnerabilities:

As always, we welcome feedback and community participation in Snort on the snort-users mailing list.