Re: Empty alert descriptions

[beenph <beenph () gmail com>]

 On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 12:58 PM, SnortFan <SnortFan () yahoo com> wrote:
> Hi,
Greetings Ed,
> I recently took over a position over seeing a group of snort sensors and they've been having an issue of empty 
> descriptions on some alerts.
> This has been going on since before the last admin.
>
> Just a few rules seem to generate the empty alerts yet a few of the older sensors don't have this issue.
>
> Pulledpork version v0.6.1 is running on a non-sensor and we push the rules and the sid-msg.map files to all sensors 
> from it. It's had snort version 2.9.4.5 GRE (Build 71)
> installed. We have a script that deploys the new rules and sid-msg.map and then restarts the snort and barnyard2 
> processes on the sensors.
>
> The 4 sensors generating the non-descriptive alerts are running a snort version 2.9.4.5 GRE (Build 71) and barnyard2 
> version 2.1.11 (Build 318).
>
> The 2 sensors not having issues are running a snort version 2.9.2.3 IPv6 GRE (Build 205) and barnyard2 version 2.1.9 
> (Build 263).
>
> On all the sensors the sid-msg.map is the same. The gen-msg.map files do differ but both have entries for the alerts 
> that barnyard2 is picking up with no alerts.
>
> Example alerts: Snort Alert [1:16435:0]
> Snort Alert [119:32:0].
Where are you seeing those messages?
Which output plugin are you using with barnyard2?
Cheers,
-elz

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