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RE: False positives with SMTP RCPT TO overflow rule


From: "Slighter, Tim" <tslighter () itc nrcs usda gov>
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 13:06:58 -0600

Adding to that, I am fairly certain that this rule pertains to Lotus Notes.


-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Kettler [mailto:mkettler () evi-inc com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2002 12:16 PM
To: Nels Lindquist; snort-users () lists sourceforge net
Subject: Re: [Snort-users] False positives with SMTP RCPT TO overflow
rule


This came up a week or so ago. My general recommendation is that unless you 
run a vulnerable mailserver, kill this rule completely.

AFAIK this rule is easily bypassed by an attacker, and readily false-prone 
due to SMTP command pipelining. IMHO this rule is so completely broken has 
no place in a general-purpose deployment of snort.

At 11:09 AM 6/25/2002 -0600, Nels Lindquist wrote:
Hi there.

I just updated my signatures to the latest ones (as of June 24,
anyway) and suddenly I'm getting hundreds of alerts on SMTP RCPT TO
overflow.



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