Re: [Snort-users] Snort 2.9.8 Now Available

["Michael Steele" <michaels () winsnort com>]

This is usually the case when a new Snort release is pushed and Sourcefire
does not sync the new Snort release with the current rules. The latest
usually works, even if the versions do not match. I believe in most cases
it's just a filename rename that happens.

 

However, it brings up another question; Pulledpork extracts the Snort
version from the Snort install; What happens when the Snort version fails to
find a version of the rules that don't match? Not a problem for windows
because Windows requires a manual switch entry.

 

Sourcefire has been pretty good lately when making sure when a new Snort
release happens, that the rules filename changes. I have no idea what
happened here, but it does cause confusion when this happens.

 

Sourcefire can you please sync the rules filename with the new releases when
pushed to the general public.  

 

Kindest regards,

Michael...

 

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From: Y M [mailto:snort () outlook com] 
Sent: Tuesday, December 1, 2015 12:09 PM
To: Dr. Stephen Gantz <stephen.gantz () faculty umuc edu>
Cc: Snort Releases <snortreleases () snort org>;
snort-users () lists sourceforge net; snort-devel () lists sourceforge net
Subject: Re: [Snort-users] Snort 2.9.8 Now Available

 

Stephen,

 

I just threw in a quick test VM and Snort 2.9.8.0 seems to start up fine
with the 2.9.7.6 rules (including so) tarball.

 

<snip>

 

--== Initialization Complete ==--

 

   ,,_     -*> Snort! <*-

  o"  )~   Version 2.9.8.0 GRE (Build 229) 

   ''''    By Martin Roesch & The Snort Team:
http://www.snort.org/contact#team

           Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights
reserved.

           Copyright (C) 1998-2013 Sourcefire, Inc., et al.

           Using libpcap version 1.5.3

           Using PCRE version: 8.31 2012-07-06

           Using ZLIB version: 1.2.8

 

           Rules Engine: SF_SNORT_DETECTION_ENGINE  Version 2.4  <Build 1>

           Rules Object: protocol-snmp  Version 1.0  <Build 1>

           Rules Object: protocol-other  Version 1.0  <Build 1>

 

.....

 

           Preprocessor Object: SF_SIP  Version 1.1  <Build 1>

           Preprocessor Object: SF_MODBUS  Version 1.1  <Build 1>

 

Snort successfully validated the configuration!

Snort exiting

 

</snip>

 

 

YM

 

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From: Dr. Stephen Gantz <stephen.gantz () faculty umuc edu
<mailto:stephen.gantz () faculty umuc edu> >
Sent: Tuesday, December 1, 2015 1:36 AM
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Subject: Re: [Snort-users] Snort 2.9.8 Now Available 

 

Any issue with running 2.9.7.6 rules with this release pending a 2.9.8
ruleset?

 

 

 

Dr. Stephen D. Gantz 

CISSP-ISSAP, CEH, CGEIT, CRISC, CIPP/G, C|CISO

Professor of Information Assurance

The Graduate School

University of Maryland University College

 <mailto:stephen.gantz () faculty umuc edu> stephen.gantz () faculty umuc edu

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Date: 11/30/2015 2:30 PM (GMT-05:00) 

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Subject: [Snort-users] Snort 2.9.8 Now Available 

 

Snort 2.9.8 is now available on snort.org at
 
 <http://www.snort.org/downloads> http://www.snort.org/downloads in the
Snort Stable Release section.
 
2015-11-17 - Snort 2.9.8.0
[*] New additions
 *  SMBv2/SMBv3 support for file inspection.
 
 *  Port override for metadata service in IPS rules.
 
 *  AppID Lua detector performance profiling.
 
 *  Perfmon dumps stats at fixed intervals from absolute time.
 
 *  New preprocessor alert (120:18) to detect SSH tunneling over HTTP
 
 *  New config option |disable_replace| to disable replace rule option.
 
 *  New Stream configuration |log_asymmetric_traffic| to control logging to
syslog.
 
 *  New shell script in tools to create simple Lua detectors for AppID.
 
[*] Improvements
 *  sfip_t refactored to use struct in6_addr for all ip addresses.
 
 *  Post-detection callback for preprocessors.
 
 *  AppID support for multiple server/client detectors evaluating on same
flow.
 
 *  AppID API for DNS packets.
 
 *  Memory optimizations throughout.
 
 *  Support sending UDP active responses.
 
 *  Fix perfmon tracking of pruned packets.
 
 *  Stability improvements for AppID.
 
 *  Stability improvements for Stream6 preprocessor.
 
 *  Added improved support to block malware in FTP preprocessor.
 
 *  Added support to differentiate between active and passive FTP
connections.
 
 *  Improvements done in Stream6 preprocessor to avoid having duplicate
packets 
    in the DAQ retry queue.
 
 *  Resolved an issue where reputation config incorrectly displayed
'blacklist' in
    priority field even though 'whitelist' option was configured.
 
 *  Added support for multiple expected sessions created per packet
 
 *  Active response now supports MPLS
 
 
 
Please submit bugs, questions, and feedback to   <mailto:tobugs () snort org>
bugs () snort org  or the
 
Snort-Users mailing list.
 
 
 
Happy Snorting!
 
The Snort Release Team
 

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