Re: ET POLICY Vulnerable Java Version 1.8.x Detected

["Joel Esler (jesler)" <jesler () cisco com>]

That’s an emerging threats rule, not an official Snort Subscriber Rule Set rule.  You’ll have to take that up with the 
emerging threats personnel.

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Joel Esler
Open Source Manager
Threat Intelligence Team Lead
Talos Group

> On Mar 20, 2015, at 7:38 PM, Jonathon Elwood <jaelwood () gmail com> wrote:
>
> I'm running snort version 2.9.7.0 pkg v3.2.3 (this is pfsense version 2.2.1).
>
> I'm getting an alert for some of my machines that have Java installed (ET POLICY Vulnerable Java Version 1.8.x 
> Detected).  These are Windows 8.1 machines and I verified that I have the latest version of Java.  Java version 
> "1.8.0_40" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_40-b26)
>
> Any idea why snort would trigger this alert with this version of Java?
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