Re: Broken snort rule

[Matt Jonkman <jonkman () jonkmans com>]

How about unescaped colons and semicolons, etc?

Thanks for the info Matt. I hadn't seen that option. Time to upgrade.

Matt

Matt Olney wrote:
> Actually, in snort 2.8.3.3 <http://2.8.3.3>, the -x control:
>
> -x         Exit if Snort configuration problems occur
>
> will fail out on many common rule problems.   For example, duplicate sids.
>
> Matt
>
> On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 2:30 PM, Paul Schmehl <pauls () utdallas edu
> <mailto:pauls () utdallas edu>> wrote:
>
>     --On Tuesday, October 07, 2008 11:48:45 -0500 Matt Jonkman
>     <jonkman () jonkmans com <mailto:jonkman () jonkmans com>> wrote:
>
>
>         Cool, I had stopped testing of the autogenerated rules because
>         it didn't
>         seem to be of much use. Will turn that back on.
>
>         Is there an easy way to parse the other rules though for more subtle
>         errors? Or force verbosity to get it to tell us about rules ignored?
>
>
>     does # snort -Tvvvvvv not do the trick?
>
>     -- 
>     Paul Schmehl (pauls () utdallas edu <mailto:pauls () utdallas edu>)
>     Senior Information Security Analyst
>     The University of Texas at Dallas
>     http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/

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