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Re: Pulledpork 0.74 and Ubuntu 18.04 so_rules


From: "Joel Esler \(jesler\) via Snort-users" <snort-users () lists snort org>
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2019 15:03:33 +0000

Thanks for letting us know, let me have our rule builders take a look.


On Jul 23, 2019, at 8:19 PM, Jefferson, Shawn <Shawn.Jefferson () bcferries com> wrote:

Hi,
 
I wanted to bring this to JJC and/or Joel’s attention.  I just spent some time troubleshooting why my SO_rules 
weren’t updating with 2.9.14.0 and Pulledpork 0.7.4.  Basically, pulledpork.pl is manipulating the arch retrieved 
from uname –a to change the “_” to a “-“.  All the Ubuntu precompiled so_rules have a directory structure listed as 
“x86-64” EXCEPT for Ubuntu-18-4, which has “x86_64”.  Commenting out the replacement in pulledpork.pl fixed it for 
me, but I guess there should be an official fix either from JJC or Snort/Talos.  Also, Pulledpork just fails silently 
to update your SO rules if it can’t find the $Distro/$arch files.  Maybe an error or warning message? ;)
 
PS. A complaint (?), or maybe more of a discussion point about the recent version of pulledpork.  Now (admittedly 
it’s been a while since I’ve updated) that pulledpork insists on putting the so_rules into the main file instead of 
giving you a choice, it’s difficult (impossible?) to update your text rules separately from your so_rules.  I was 
updating my text rules twice a day, and only updating my so_rules once a week since a so_rule update requires a 
restart of the snort process instead of just a reload.  Maybe I should be updating text and so_rules at the same time 
though?  I guess I could be missing rule updates that are important to get quickly by only updating so_rules once a 
week.  For now I have decided to update text and so_rules at the same time and live with the restart of the snort 
processes.  However, I think more choice in what pulledpork does with your so_rules is better, but perhaps there’s a 
reason the sostub_path option was deprecated?
 
Thanks,
Shawn
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