Re: [Snort-users] 2.9.0.1 performance issue

[matan monitz <mmonitz () gmail com>]

point taken, thanks
my fault for misunderstanding recent announcements

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 7:07 PM, Russ Combs <rcombs () sourcefire com> wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 11:26 AM, L0rd Ch0de1m0rt <
> l0rdch0de1m0rt () gmail com> wrote:
>
> > Hello.  To be clear, there is no fix for the "http_inspect\stream
> > reassembly" bug at the moment (if there is a fix in SVN, let me know
> > so I can take action here b/c this is seriously a non-trivial bug for
> > me).  Apparently it is an issue with Stream5 having premature buffer
> > flushing issues.
> >
> > Government/Critical Infrastructure companies take note: this bug leads
> > to easy IDS/IPS evasion and this issue, "predates Snort 2.9.0"
> > according to Sourcefire.
>
> The reassembly fix is in the next release which is going through QA now and
> will be released "soon".  Sorry I can't give you an exact date.
>
> Also note that actual evasion depends on the timing of acknowledgements
> from target to attacking host and so it isn't always "easy".
>
>
>
> > -L0rd C.
> >
> > On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 10:09 AM, matan monitz <mmonitz () gmail com> wrote:
> > > sounds related to the http_inspect\stream reassembly bugfix
> >
> >
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