Re: Duplicated rules with the last update

[Joel Esler <jesler () sourcefire com>]

On Apr 19, 2013, at 10:03 AM, C. L. Martinez <carlopmart () gmail com> wrote:

>  I have updated my snort rules five minutes ago and a lot of messages like these appears:
>
> Apr 19 13:58:32 nsm01 snort[1565]: WARNING: /data/config/etc/idpsnort01/rules/VRT-app-detect.rules(38) GID 1 SID 
> 21488 in rule duplicates previous rule. Ignoring old rule.
> Apr 19 13:58:32 nsm01 snort[1565]: WARNING: /data/config/etc/idpsnort01/rules/VRT-app-detect.rules(56) GID 1 SID 
> 24397 in rule duplicates previous rule. Ignoring old rule.
> Apr 19 13:58:32 nsm01 snort[1565]: WARNING: /data/config/etc/idpsnort01/rules/VRT-botnet-cnc.rules(8) GID 1 SID 23799 
> in rule duplicates previous rule. Ignoring old rule.
> Apr 19 13:58:32 nsm01 snort[1565]: WARNING: /data/config/etc/idpsnort01/rules/VRT-botnet-cnc.rules(10) GID 1 SID 
> 23800 in rule duplicates previous rule. Ignoring old rule.
> Apr 19 13:58:32 nsm01 snort[1565]: WARNING: /data/config/etc/idpsnort01/rules/VRT-botnet-cnc.rules(12) GID 1 SID 
> 23801 in rule duplicates previous rule. Ignoring old rule.
> Apr 19 13:58:32 nsm01 snort[1565]: WARNING: /data/config/etc/idpsnort01/rules/VRT-botnet-cnc.rules(14) GID 1 SID 
> 23802 in rule duplicates previous rule. Ignoring old rule.
> Apr 19 13:58:32 nsm01 snort[1565]: WARNING: /data/config/etc/idpsnort01/rules/VRT-botnet-cnc.rules(16) GID 1 SID 
> 23803 in rule duplicates previous rule. Ignoring old rule.
> Apr 19 13:58:32 nsm01 snort[1565]: WARNING: /data/config/etc/idpsnort01/rules/VRT-botnet-cnc.rules(18) GID 1 SID 
> 23804 in rule duplicates previous rule. Ignoring old rule.
> Apr 19 13:58:32 nsm01 snort[1565]: WARNING: /data/config/etc/idpsnort01/rules/VRT-browser-chrome.rules(8) GID 1 SID 
> 16667 in rule duplicates previous rule. Ignoring old rule.
> Apr 19 13:58:32 nsm01 snort[1565]: WARNING: /data/config/etc/idpsnort01/rules/VRT-browser-chrome.rules(10) GID 1 SID 
> 16668 in rule duplicates previous rule. Ignoring old rule.
> Apr 19 13:58:32 nsm01 snort[1565]: WARNING: /data/config/etc/idpsnort01/rules/VRT-browser-chrome.rules(20) GID 1 SID 
> 19710 in rule duplicates previous rule. Ignoring old rule.
> Apr 19 13:58:32 nsm01 snort[1565]: WARNING: /data/config/etc/idpsnort01/rules/VRT-browser-firefox.rules(14) GID 1 SID 
> 13838 in rule duplicates previous rule. Ignoring old rule.
> Apr 19 13:58:32 nsm01 snort[1565]: WARNING: /data/config/etc/idpsnort01/rules/VRT-browser-firefox.rules(16) GID 1 SID 
> 15164 in rule duplicates previous rule. Ignoring old rule.
> Apr 19 13:58:32 nsm01 snort[1565]: WARNING: /data/config/etc/idpsnort01/rules/VRT-browser-firefox.rules(20) GID 1 SID 
> 15383 in rule duplicates previous rule. Ignoring old rule.
> Apr 19 13:58:32 nsm01 snort[1565]: WARNING: /data/config/etc/idpsnort01/rules/VRT-browser-firefox.rules(24) GID 1 SID 
> 15431 in rule duplicates previous rule. Ignoring old rule.
> Apr 19 13:58:32 nsm01 snort[1565]: WARNING: /data/config/etc/idpsnort01/rules/VRT-browser-firefox.rules(26) GID 1 SID 
> 15699 in rule duplicates previous rule. Ignoring old rule.
> Apr 19 13:58:32 nsm01 snort[1565]: WARNING: /data/config/etc/idpsnort01/rules/VRT-browser-firefox.rules(32) GID 1 SID 
> 15997 in rule duplicates previous rule. Ignoring old rule.
> Apr 19 13:58:32 nsm01 snort[1565]: WARNING: /data/config/etc/idpsnort01/rules/VRT-browser-firefox.rules(34) GID 1 SID 
> 15999 in rule duplicates previous rule. Ignoring old rule.
> Apr 19 13:58:32 nsm01 snort[1565]: WARNING: /data/config/etc/idpsnort01/rules/VRT-browser-firefox.rules(56) GID 1 SID 
> 16142 in rule duplicates previous rule. Ignoring old rule.
> Apr 19 13:58:32 nsm01 snort[1565]: WARNING: /data/config/etc/idpsnort01/rules/VRT-browser-firefox.rules(60) GID 1 SID 
> 16284 in rule duplicates previous rule. Ignoring old rule.
> Apr 19 13:58:32 nsm01 snort[1565]: WARNING: /data/config/etc/idpsnort01/rules/VRT-browser-firefox.rules(68) GID 1 SID 
> 16347 in rule duplicates previous rule. Ignoring old rule.
>
>
>  I am using pulledpork to update rules …


Looking into it.

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