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Re: Sourcefire VRT Certified Snort Rules Update
From: Nigel Houghton <nhoughton () sourcefire com>
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:23:03 -0500
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 3:13 PM, evilghost () packetmail net <evilghost () packetmail net> wrote:
Nigel, thank you for this response, however, I believe it to be a reasonable expectation that the VRT announcement emails which are made to this list, with a corresponding URL to the Change Log, function correctly at not be 404. Additionally, when an issue is reported it would be nice to have this addressed in a timely basis and comprehensively; due diligence should be done to verify the Change Log is actually working as expected before claiming it is, as it only makes SourceFire look incompetent when the converse is true. As of now the notification system for VRT appears to be diffused across many different mechanisms, from sporadic functioning mailing lists to Blogs. While I'm not opposed to another technological approach to management of the Snort rules and the accompanying change notification it is a disservice to your VRT subscriber base to continue in this downward spiral of mismanagement and haphazard issue resolution. I could only hope that the information available of Snort.org would be an authoritative source, the URLs in VRT announcement messages would be functional, and that I should not have to rely on additional tool to perform what is purported to already exist. As a paying VRT subscriber I am entitled to make these criticisms, especially when they have merit. Thanks, evilghost Nigel Houghton wrote:On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 2:22 PM, evilghost () packetmail net <evilghost () packetmail net> wrote:Negative, this is not resolved. http://www.snort.org/vrt/docs/ruleset_changelogs/changes-2009-11-13.html loads correctly and contains two HREFs to the Change log itself, one for 'Snort Version CURRENT' and one for 'Snort Version 2_8' http://www.snort.org/vrt/docs/ruleset_changelogs/CURRENT/changes-2009-11-13.html is HTTP 404. http://www.snort.org/vrt/docs/ruleset_changelogs/2_8/changes-2009-11-13.html is HTTP 404. C'mon guys. Many of us depend on these Change Logs before we blindly push out these VRT rules and the inability to correctly manage these Changelogs reflect poorly on you (SourceFire), especially when there's a 4 day lapse in response when the issue was initially reported and still it has not been resolved correctly. -evilghost Mike Guiterman wrote:This has been fixed. Thanks for the report. On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 4:24 PM, evilghost () packetmail net < evilghost () packetmail net> wrote:The changelog is HTTP 404. research () sourcefire com wrote:-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Sourcefire VRT Certified Snort Rules Update Synopsis: This release adds and modifies rules in several categories. Details: As a result of ongoing research, the Sourcefire VRT has added multiple rules to the specific-threats, web-misc, p2p, backdoor and spyware-put rule sets to provide coverage for emerging threats from these technologies. For a complete list of new and modified rules please see: http://www.snort.org/vrt/docs/ruleset_changelogs/changes-2009-11-13.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFK/cGkQcQOxItLLaMRAk4OAJ9gbdNYa7P1AvbV/GuontbfpwVzYQCfRAgS E3O1jvr9wb3Hy+DPpQ2RGLw= =c3JW -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 200830-Daytrial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - andfocus onwhat you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Snort-sigs mailing list Snort-sigs () lists sourceforge net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/snort-sigs------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Snort-sigs mailing list Snort-sigs () lists sourceforge net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/snort-sigsIf you use pulled pork to download your rules, it will show all the changes, including the shared object rules. This is a much better way of looking at what you are about to deploy than a page on a web site. Hopefully, the next release of pulled pork will give you the option of creating a changelog file. This way you can see the changes between what you have and what you are getting, as opposed to the changes between subsequent files.
We (the VRT) currently do not control the web site content publishing for snort.org. The correct place to raise your issues with site content is snort-site () sourcefire com as listed at http://www.snort.org/community/contact-us/ We did not publish the blog post for this last rule release due to the issues with the missing advisory and accompanying change log. Steps will be taken to ensure the information you seek from VRT is given in a timely manner. Thank you for your support. Currently, the change logs for snort.org do not contain information regarding the shared object rules, this will be changing in the near future, until then, your best option for getting the information you seek is by using pulled pork as I suggested earlier. -- Nigel Houghton Head Mentalist SF VRT http://vrt-sourcefire.blogspot.com && http://www.snort.org/vrt/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Snort-sigs mailing list Snort-sigs () lists sourceforge net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/snort-sigs
Current thread:
- Sourcefire VRT Certified Snort Rules Update, (continued)
- Sourcefire VRT Certified Snort Rules Update research (Oct 13)
- Sourcefire VRT Certified Snort Rules Update Sourcefire VRT (Oct 13)
- Sourcefire VRT Certified Snort Rules Update research (Nov 04)
- Sourcefire VRT Certified Snort Rules Update research (Nov 10)
- Sourcefire VRT Certified Snort Rules Update research (Nov 13)
- Re: Sourcefire VRT Certified Snort Rules Update evilghost () packetmail net (Nov 13)
- Re: Sourcefire VRT Certified Snort Rules Update Mike Guiterman (Nov 17)
- Re: Sourcefire VRT Certified Snort Rules Update evilghost () packetmail net (Nov 17)
- Re: Sourcefire VRT Certified Snort Rules Update Nigel Houghton (Nov 17)
- Re: Sourcefire VRT Certified Snort Rules Update evilghost () packetmail net (Nov 17)
- Re: Sourcefire VRT Certified Snort Rules Update Nigel Houghton (Nov 17)
- Re: Sourcefire VRT Certified Snort Rules Update Mike Guiterman (Nov 17)
- Re: Sourcefire VRT Certified Snort Rules Update evilghost () packetmail net (Nov 17)
- Re: Sourcefire VRT Certified Snort Rules Update evilghost () packetmail net (Nov 13)