Re: shellcode error

[john <john () bad-current net>]

Shouldn't additions to snort.conf like this be limited to the -CURRENT
branch?


On  0, matt <mkettler () evi-inc com> wrote:
> Yeah, and the latest snort rules tarball should also include a snort.conf 
> containing a SHELLCODE_PORTS variable.. put that in your snort.conf and it 
> should work fine.
>
> Don't assume that the baseline snort.conf is unchanged when updating your 
> rule sets, it is VERY common for it to have new variables used by the new 
> ruleset.
>
>
> At 04:25 PM 5/30/2002 -0400, Hugo Ferr wrote:
> > Downloaded latest stable rules for Snort 1.8.6, when I stort snort I get the
> > following;
> >
> > [!] ERROR ./snortrules/shellcode.rules(14) => Bad port number:
> > "(msg:"SHELLCODE"
> > Fatal Error, Quitting..
> >
> > The only thing I've found on the web suggests:
> > "Probably your variable SHELLCODE_PORTS is not defined or misconfigured in
> > snort.conf file."
> > I don't have this variable in snort.conf
> > (When I disable shellcode rules snort starts fine, but....what the hell..it
> > should work with those rules as well :-)
> >
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