Re: UTF-8 and Unicode packet content under snort 1.8.7

[Chris Green <cmg () sourcefire com>]

John Sage <jsage () finchhaven com> writes:

> Hello world..
>
> I'm currently involved in a discussion on another list where the
> poster is stating that a Linux-based snort host, not updated to
> properly handle UTF-8/Unicode encodings, will not correctly represent
> binary-logged packet content that contains UTF-8/Unicode characters.


I think the issue you are running into is that older versions of snort
munged packet data when it normalized it wheras 1.9.x decode in a
separte normalization buffer.

The only thing that might be an issue is the use of isspace type macros.
-- 
Chris Green <cmg () sourcefire com>
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