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Re: Receiving alerts for a disabled rule


From: SnortFan <SnortFan () yahoo com>
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 11:55:20 -0500

Hmm try this:

Double check your snort.conf to make sure of where your pulling your rules from. Then do a grep in that folder against 
all the .rules files against the Sid number.  Maybe it's in another file that's getting used?

Also, are you looking at it from an interface like base or at the new unified2 file it starts writing too upon restart. 
The reason I'm asking is that an tool like base could have alerts queued. 

Cheers,
Ed

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On Feb 28, 2014, at 8:15 AM, Anshuman Anil Deshmukh <anshuman () cybage com> wrote:

Hi Joel,
 
The rule is disabled. I even restarted the snort machine but still alerts for this rule are getting generated. Please 
help.
 
Here is the actual rule-
 
# alert tcp $EXTERNAL_NET any -> $HOME_NET $HTTP_PORTS (msg:"DOS generic web server hashing collision attack"; 
sid:20825; gid:3; rev:8; classtype:attempted-dos; reference:cve,2011-3414; 
reference:url,events.ccc.de/congress/2011/Fahrplan/events/4680.en.html; 
reference:url,technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/advisory/2659883; 
reference:url,technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/MS11-100; reference:cve,2012-0830; 
reference:cve,2010-1899; reference:cve,2011-5037; metadata: engine shared, soid 3|20825, service http;)
 
Regards,
Anshuman
 
 
From: Joel Esler (jesler) [mailto:jesler () cisco com] 
Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2014 9:06 PM
To: Anshuman Anil Deshmukh
Cc: snort-users () lists sourceforge net
Subject: Re: [Snort-users] Receiving alerts for a disabled rule
 
If you are receiving the alert from the rule, then it is either:
 
A) Not disabled
B) You didn’t restart Snort after you disabled it.
 
--
Joel Esler
Threat Intelligence Team Lead
Open Source Manager
Vulnerability Research Team
 
On Feb 20, 2014, at 7:03 AM, Anshuman Anil Deshmukh <anshuman () cybage com> wrote:


Hi,
 
Recently I found that I am getting alerts for one of the rule which is commented out. What could be the possible 
reason for generating such alert when the rule is disabled?
 
Here are my setup details below.
 
Snort version: Version 2.9.5 GRE (Build 103)
Barnyard version: Version 2.1.9 (Build 263) - XFF patch (version 2)
Rules are updating using pulledpork version 0.70 where all rules reside in one single file
 
Below are the references of the actual rule and the alert generated on SNORBY.
 
 
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Thanks and Regards,
Anshuman
Information Security-Analyst

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