Re: Broken snort rule

[Matt Jonkman <jonkman () jonkmans com>]

Except in references and such.

Joel Esler wrote:
> colons, semicolons, quotes, and backslashes should all be specified in
> hex. 
>
> J
>
> On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 5:16 PM, Matt Jonkman <jonkman () jonkmans com
> <mailto:jonkman () jonkmans com>> wrote:
>
>     How about unescaped colons and semicolons, etc?
>
>     Thanks for the info Matt. I hadn't seen that option. Time to upgrade.
>
>     Matt
>
>     Matt Olney wrote:
>     > Actually, in snort 2.8.3.3 <http://2.8.3.3> <http://2.8.3.3>, the
>     -x control:
>     >
>     > -x         Exit if Snort configuration problems occur
>     >
>     > will fail out on many common rule problems.   For example,
>     duplicate sids.
>     >
>     > Matt
>     >
>     > On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 2:30 PM, Paul Schmehl <pauls () utdallas edu
>     <mailto:pauls () utdallas edu>
>     > <mailto:pauls () utdallas edu <mailto:pauls () utdallas edu>>> wrote:
>     >
>     >     --On Tuesday, October 07, 2008 11:48:45 -0500 Matt Jonkman
>     >     <jonkman () jonkmans com <mailto:jonkman () jonkmans com>
>     <mailto:jonkman () jonkmans com <mailto:jonkman () jonkmans com>>> wrote:
>     >
>     >
>     >         Cool, I had stopped testing of the autogenerated rules because
>     >         it didn't
>     >         seem to be of much use. Will turn that back on.
>     >
>     >         Is there an easy way to parse the other rules though for
>     more subtle
>     >         errors? Or force verbosity to get it to tell us about
>     rules ignored?
>     >
>     >
>     >     does # snort -Tvvvvvv not do the trick?
>     >
>     >     --
>     >     Paul Schmehl (pauls () utdallas edu <mailto:pauls () utdallas edu>
>     <mailto:pauls () utdallas edu <mailto:pauls () utdallas edu>>)
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>     >     The University of Texas at Dallas
>     >     http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
>     >
>     >
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