Honeypots: Re: [Fwd: Re: WMF Exploit]

From: Frank Knobbe <frank_at_knobbe.us>
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 12:42:33 -0600

On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 13:12 +0100, Stefan Kelm wrote:
> I thought about playing with this snort rule on Roo-189 but am reluctant
> to set "flow_depth 0" within snort.conf. Has anyone tried something
> similar?

We're running it with flow_depth 0 on dedicated Snort instances that
only run those few rules. That way Snort doesn't turn into a brick on
average utilized networks. Performance impact of those few rules with
flow_depth is very low.

Cheers,
Frank

> http://www.bleedingsnort.com/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/sigs/CURRENT_EVENTS/CURRENT_WMF_Exploit?only_with_tag=HEAD&view=markup

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