RE: Using Snort & DB to remove false alarms

["Kreimendahl, Chad J" <Chad.Kreimendahl () umb com>]

A return page on a FILE_NOT_FOUND (404) also returns the 404 code in the
header, along with the page. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Haar [mailto:Jason.Haar () trimble co nz] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 6:32 PM
To: Snort Users
Subject: RE: [Snort-users] Using Snort & DB to remove false alarms

On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 03:51, Kreimendahl, Chad J wrote:
> Maybe a better idea for this would be to use tagging of some sort and
> have another rule that if it matches 404 on the first return packet...
> does not alert.   The problem with this is that you'd not be able to

I think this is an excellent idea - but it's a wheel that shouldn't be
re-invented.

Nessus had exactly this issue to contend with, so all that can be stolen
should be from it to do it right.

e.g. Don't expect a "404" error. A lot of people put up "error pages" to
be returned when a bad page is asked for. IIS (can) returns them as
"200" instead of "40x"... Don't ask me why... Anyway, Nessus has code to
work around those kinds of monstrosities.


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