Re: Incorrect payload on acid alerts

[Dirk Geschke <Dirk_Geschke () genua de>]

Hi,

> I have a snort version 2.1.0 installed a few month now and it worked fine.
>
> Alerts output is to mysql and acid.
>
> Recently I added a Microsoft sms server which createstons of alerts
>
> For example : WEB-MISC http directory traversal 
>
> The problem is when I look at the payload I can see the beginning of the
> payload which was actually sent to the sms server and the rest completely
> different sessions (parts of email messages , part of telnet sessions) the
> alert is generated by the wrong part of the payload.
>
> Can anyone help me ?

yes, upgrade to snort-2.1.3 or better to snort-2.2.0.

There were some bugs within stream4 which caused a mixup of parts
from other sessions.

Dirk


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