Re: Snort's capabilities

["Joel Esler (jesler)" <jesler () cisco com>]

Snort is both a protocol analysis IPS and it has the ability to simple and extremely complex pattern matching and 
analysis.

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Joel Esler
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Threat Intelligence Team Lead
Talos

> On Dec 10, 2014, at 5:25 PM, Savakh S <sovakah () gmail com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I have a general question about snort's capabilities.
> I know Snort works by "pattern matching" of attacks signatures since Snort is not a "protocol analysis" IDS. However 
> I saw Snort could detect a wrong value "Content-length" in a Post HTTP request.
> So, how can Snort detect this malformed request ? Is this a feature provided by the preprocessor of the HTTP protocol 
> ?
>
> Thanks for your answers
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