Re: 1:17239 False Positive

[Joel Esler <jesler () sourcefire com>]

Right, that's the general rule of thumb, however, this rule was updated in today's rulepack.

Joel

On Oct 12, 2010, at 12:21 PM, Christopher A. Libby wrote:

> My initial guess would be disable this rule if you aren't using the product - the non-email port FP's are the only 
> ones that really concern me. - Chris
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Lay [mailto:jlay () slave-tothe-box net] 
> Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2010 8:43 AM
> To: Snort
> Subject: Re: [Snort-users] 1:17239 False Positive
>
> Count me in here too...I saw a lot of these yesterday on port 25.
>
> On 10/12/10 6:32 AM, "Christopher A. Libby"
> <clibby () mainepublicservice com> wrote:
>
> > 1:17239 "IMAP Alt-N MDaemon IMAP server CREATE command buffer overflow
> > attempt" is giving me a false positive on SQL Server backup traffic.
> > Could this rule be successfully limited to known IMAP ports?
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