Re: 17494 Falsing on non IE6 systems

[Joel Esler <jesler () sourcefire com>]

Current revision on this rule is rev:3.  It looks nothing like the below.

Thanks for the feedback Jason.

Joel

On Oct 27, 2010, at 8:51 AM, L0rd Ch0de1m0rt wrote:

> Yea, this is a terribly written rule, especially with Web 2.0
> technologies and advertising companies preferring to create ginormous
> URIs.  It's not browser specific ... all modern browsers support
> URIs>206 bytes and the RFC doesn't specify a limit....
>
> Are you running the latest version of this rule?  I could be thinking
> of a different rule but I thought that when this one came out it
> everyone started complaining about it and they disabled it.  I
> recommend all who are running it to disable it.
>
> -L0rd C.
>
> On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 7:37 AM, Weir, Jason <jason.weir () nhrs org> wrote:
> > Tons of false positives on machines running IE7 & 8...
> >
> > Maybe do a content match on the IE6 user agent - something like
> > content:"compatible; MSIE 6."
> >
> > alert tcp $HOME_NET any -> $EXTERNAL_NET $HTTP_PORTS (msg:"WEB-CLIENT
> > Microsoft Internet Explorer Long URL Buffer Overflow attempt";
> > flow:established,to_server; urilen:>260; content:"GET"; http_method;
> > content:"HTTP|2F|1|2E|1|0D 0A|"; metadata:service http;
> > reference:bugtraq,19667; reference:cve,2006-3869;
> > classtype:attempted-user; sid:17494; rev:1;)
> >
> > Jason
> >
> >
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