Snort rule update for Dec. 10, 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 vulnerabilities Microsoft disclosed this week, head to the Talos blog.

In all, this release includes 11 new rules, 10 new shared object rules and four modified rules.

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

Talos's rule release:

Microsoft Vulnerability CVE-2019-1458: 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 52410 through 52411.

Microsoft Vulnerability CVE-2019-1469: A coding deficiency exists in Microsoft Win32k that may lead to information disclosure.

Rules to detect attacks targeting these vulnerabilities are included in this release and are identified with GID 1, SIDs 52419 through 52420.

Microsoft Vulnerability CVE-2019-1485: 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 52402 through 52403.

Talos also has added and modified multiple rules in the browser-ie, browser-webkit, file-office, file-other, malware-backdoor, malware-tools, os-windows and server-webapp rule sets to provide coverage for emerging threats from these technologies.

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