IDS: Could signature-based ips/ids covers file format vulnerability attack?

["Alice Bryson" <abryson () bytefocus com>]

hi there
    Could anyone tell me how signature-based ips/ids covers file
format vulnerability attack?
    I have search on google but not so much found.
    Something like Microsoft WMF file format vulnerability attack is
hard to write signature, i think. because the overflow field is
crafted to a undefined large number, signature could not written based
on this field infomation. shellcode may not be signature too, because
some file may contain the content of shellcode code.


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