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Re: Rules and Tuning


From: JJ Cummings <cummingsj () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 17:03:27 -0600

If you are running pulledpork then it sticks all rules in a single file by default... Dig through there and enjoy

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On Aug 14, 2012, at 14:52, Steven Vona <savona () aivila com> wrote:

Thanks for the help.  But what I really need is a listing of all the rules.  We want to go through the whole list and 
select what we need enabled and not enabled.  Is this possible?


On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Tony Robinson <trobinson () sourcefire com> wrote:
To expand on JJ's answer,

This depends on what ruleset you are utilizing, Steve, but at least for the VRT ruleset, there are multiple ways for 
you to obtain more information for a given rule. If you have the sid number/message, the actual rule (or rule stub in 
the case of SO rules) will usually have metadata associated with the rule -- MS vulnerability IDs, CVE numbers, as 
well as links to websites with more information (e.g. links to bugtraq or MS technet, virustotal, etc.)

If you don't want to dig in the .rules files, then, at least for VRT rules, snort.org has a rule search page, that, 
given a SID, can give you more information on a given rule
www.snort.org/search

additionally, the downloads page has a file, opensource.gz that has rule documentation available as well.

Hope this helps,

Tony

On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 1:42 PM, Steven Vona <savona () aivila com> wrote:
Is there someplace I can get a list of rules and what they are looking for?  We are getting a ton of alerts and I 
would like to fine tunes which rules should be active and which rules should be disabled.  I need more information 
than just the name of the rule.

Thanks,
Steve


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