Re: sid in .rules

[JJ Cummings <cummingsj () gmail com>]

Right, but in the VRT ruleset there won't be a space... Add the ; at the end and no extra match....

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On May 11, 2013, at 10:29, waldo kitty <wkitty42 () windstream net> wrote:

> oops! i hit the wrong button before i completed my post :/
>
> On 5/11/2013 11:24, JJ Cummings wrote:
> > grep 'sid:1324' /path/to/rules/*
>
> this works for those rules without a space or tab between the ':' and the SID ;)
>
> it will also find sid 1324xxxx...
>
> my comment above about the space or tab is based on previous rules that were 
> distributed as "sid: xxxx;" which is perfectly acceptable to snort... the 
> problem was inconsistency for easy greps which is why i decided to use
>
>   "sid:\W*xxxx;"
>
> that way we get the rule(s) with or without the space as well as terminating the 
> entry with the semicolon so we only get those with the sought after SID ;)
>
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