Re: snort-stat warnings

[Joel Esler <eslerj () gmail com>]

Well,  the below alerts are preprocessor alerts from the http_inspect  
preprocessor.

The biggest problem that I see is that you are using 2.3.3, which is  
many many versions old.

That would be the first step.

Joel


On Aug 4, 2008, at 6:25 AM, Adam D. Barratt wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We're running snort 2.3.3-11 on Debian etch, and for the past few  
> days the
> cron.daily job has been generating a number of "Warning, file may be
> incomplete" messages.
>
> After a little experimentation, it appears that this is due to
> /var/log/snort/alert containing the "header" line for a number of  
> alerts
> repeated (either that or the remaining data from the first item  
> being lost);
> for example:
>
> [...]
> [[**] [119:4:1] (http_inspect) BARE BYTE UNICODE ENCODING [**]]
> [[**] [119:4:1] (http_inspect) BARE BYTE UNICODE ENCODING [**]]
> [...]
>
> Does anyone know what causes this, and whether it's anything we need  
> to be
> worried about?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Adam
>
>
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