Tuesday, February 9, 2021

Snort rule update for Feb. 9, 2021 — Microsoft Patch Tuesday

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

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

Here's a breakdown of this afternoon's rule release:

Shared object rulesModified shared object rulesNew rulesModified rules
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There were no changes made to the snort.conf in this release.

Talos's rule release:
Microsoft Vulnerability CVE-2021-1698: 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 57106 through 57107.

Microsoft Vulnerability CVE-2021-1732: 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 57103 through 57104.

Microsoft Vulnerability CVE-2021-24072: A coding deficiency exists in Microsoft SharePoint that may lead to remote code execution. A rule to detect attacks targeting this vulnerability is included in this release and is identified with GID 1, SID 57108.

Microsoft Vulnerability CVE-2021-24078: A coding deficiency exists in Microsoft Windows DNS server that may lead to remote code execution. A rule to detect attacks targeting this vulnerability is included in this release and is identified with GID 1, SID 57123.

Microsoft Vulnerability CVE-2021-24094: A coding deficiency exists in Microsoft Windows TCP/IP that may lead to remote code execution. A rule to detect attacks targeting this vulnerability is included in this release and is identified with GID 1, SID 57128.

Talos also has added and modified multiple rules in the file-image, file-other, os-windows, server-apache, server-iis and server-webapp rule sets to provide coverage for emerging threats from these technologies.
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