Snort rule update for Oct. 8, 2019: Microsoft Patch Tuesday

The latest SNORT® rule release from Cisco Talos has arrived. This new round of rules provides coverage for all of the vulnerabilities covered in Microsoft Patch Tuesday.

For more details on the 60 vulnerabilities Microsoft disclosed this week, head to the Talos blog.

In all, this release includes 63 new rules, six modified rules and two new shared object rules.

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

Talos's rule release:

Microsoft Vulnerability CVE-2019-1060: A coding deficiency exists in MS XML 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 51793 through 51794.

Microsoft Vulnerability CVE-2019-1238: A coding deficiency exists in Microsoft Windows VBScript Engine 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 51791 through 51792.

Microsoft Vulnerability CVE-2019-1239: A coding deficiency exists in Microsoft Windows VBScript Engine 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 51789 through 51790.

Microsoft Vulnerability CVE-2019-1307: A coding deficiency exists in Microsoft Chakra Scripting Engine 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 51787 through 51788.

Microsoft Vulnerability CVE-2019-1308: A coding deficiency exists in Microsoft Chakra Scripting Engine 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 51785 through 51786.

Microsoft Vulnerability CVE-2019-1333: A coding deficiency exists in Remote Desktop Client 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 51741 through 51742.

Microsoft Vulnerability CVE-2019-1335: A coding deficiency exists in Microsoft Chakra Scripting Engine 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 51735 through 51736.

Microsoft Vulnerability CVE-2019-1341: A coding deficiency exists in Microsoft Windows Power Service that may lead to elevation of privilege.

Rules to detect attacks targeting these vulnerabilities are included in this release and are identified with GID 1, SIDs 51781 through 51782.

Microsoft Vulnerability CVE-2019-1362: A coding deficiency exists in Microsoft Win32k that may 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 51739 through 51740.

Microsoft Vulnerability CVE-2019-1364: A coding deficiency exists in Microsoft Win32k that may 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 51733 through 51734.

Microsoft Vulnerability CVE-2019-1366: A coding deficiency exists in Microsoft Chakra Scripting Engine 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 51783 through 51784.

Talos also has added and modified multiple rules in the browser-ie, file-other, file-pdf, indicator-compromise, indicator-scan, os-windows, protocol-voip and server-webapp rule sets to provide coverage for emerging threats from these technologies.

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