Re: Issue with pcre

[Sean Cavanaugh <sean.cavanaugh () ll mit edu>]

Thank you Nate, your suggested changes appear to have worked! Only thing 
it complained about was using fast_pattern:only. I removed the "only" 
part and it accepted the rule.

Thanks again for your help!

-Sean

On 10/06/2014 04:41 PM, lists () packetmail net wrote:
> On 10/06/2014 03:35 PM, Sean Cavanaugh wrote:
> > Good afternoon all,
> >
> > I am relatively new to writing Snort sigs and have been having some issues with
> > loading the rule shown below into our Sourcefire IPS, but receive the error
> > message "...unable to parse pcre regex "trackback\/$/EiU".
> >
> > alert tcp $EXTERNAL_NET any -> $HOME_NET $HTTP_PORTS (msg:"Trackback attempt";
> > flow:established,to_server; content:"POST"; http_method;
> > uricontent:"/trackback/"; nocase; pcre:"\/trackback\/$/EiU"; sid:xxxxxxx;)
> You're missing the first \x2f, try this:
>
> alert tcp $EXTERNAL_NET any -> $HOME_NET $HTTP_PORTS (msg:"Trackback attempt";
> flow:established,to_server; content:"POST"; http_method;
> content:"/trackback/"; http_uri; fast_pattern:only; pcre:"/\/trackback\/$/Ui";
> classtype:bad-unknown; sid:xxxxxxx;)
>
> Cheers,
> Nathan
>
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