Re: snort I.8.3 segfaults with bad 'preporcessor stream4' directive

[Chris Green <cmg () uab edu>]

> HI all,
>       minor bug report...
>
> I got a new copy of the rules file and bungled the editing of the
> snort.conf file.  The line:
>
> preprocessor stream4:
>
> caused snort to segfault.


Its caused by a bug in the argument parsing for stream4.  To work
around it, remove the :

To fix it

Change sp_stream4.c

<     if(args == NULL)
---
>     if(args == NULL || args[0] == '\0')


or just update to current snort-stable cvs

Thanks 
-- 
Chris Green <cmg () uab edu>
Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.

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