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About ListNSE scripts for SNMPv3? Johan Kuuse (Oct 03)
Hi, my first mail to this list,
I have used (and modified) quite a few NSE scripts for SNMP.
Anyhow, AFAIK, all SNMP scripts (except "snmp-info") are limited to SNMPv1
and SNMPv2c:
nmap --script-help=snmp* | grep -B3 -A1 -i v3
----------------------------------
snmp-info
Categories: default version safe
https://nmap.org/nsedoc/scripts/snmp-info.html
Extracts basic information from an SNMPv3 GET request. The same probe is
used
here...
Nmap PR #2909 Vahagn Vardanian via dev (Sep 17)
Hello there,
My name is Vahagn, and I am the co-founder and CTO of RedRays.
A few weeks ago, we created a pull request to Nmap Github to add a new
check for detecting the most popular information disclosure in SAP systems.
You can get list of SAp systems using this google dork: inurl:/irj/portal
Thank you
NPCAP 1.60 high CPU usage with pcap filter that does not pass anything (Win10) Vladimir Soldatov (Sep 17)
Hi guys,
I've a setup (Win10, Intel X520, NPCAP 1.60) with relatively high traffic
around 700 Mbit/s and I am trying to test the following cases:
1. Capture everything with empty pcap filter and just print stats with some
period calculating captured data size
2. Capture nothing with an intentionally created filter that does not match
the received traffic at all.
3. Capture some subset of traffic like 10%.
In all the cases, CPU usage...
[PATCH 1/1] Improved the legibility of `Makefile` Ariel Otilibili (Sep 17)
* source files obtained by a wildcard
* headers and objects generated by differences.
```
$ grep -P '(SRCS|HDRS|OBJS) =' Makefile.in | \
sed -e 's/^export.*= //g; s/\$.*//g; s/OBJS = //' | \
sed -ne '2p' | \
tr ' ' '\n' | \
sed -e 's/\.h//' | \
sort -d | \
grep -vP '^$' > headers
$ grep -P '(SRCS|HDRS|OBJS) =' Makefile.in | \
sed -e...
[PATCH 0/1] Improved the legibility of Makefile Ariel Otilibili (Sep 17)
Hello committers,
The same patch is on this PR: https://github.com/nmap/nmap/pull/2938
Have a good weekend,
Ariel
Ariel Otilibili (1):
Improved the legibility of `Makefile`
Makefile.in | 14 +++-----------
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
How to make a minimal HTTPS request with ncat --ssl with explicit HTTP content? Ciro Santilli OurBigBook via dev (Sep 17)
Hello, I was trying for fun to make an HTTPS request with explicit hand-written HTTP content.
Something analogous to:
printf 'GET / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: example.com\r\n\r\n' | ncat example.com 80
but for HTTPS. After Googling one of the tools that I found that seemed it might do the job was ncat from the nmap
project, so I tried:
printf 'GET / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: example.com\r\n\r\n' | ncat --ssl example.com 443
an that works...
[PATCH 1/1] Updated ALPN IDs Ariel Otilibili (Sep 15)
```
$ URL=https://www.iana.org/assignments/tls-extensiontype-values/alpn-protocol-ids.csv
$ curl -sL ${URL} |
perl -nE 'say $& if /(?<=\"\").*(?=\"\")/' |
sort > iana;
< scripts/tls-alpn.nse perl -nE 'say $& if m!(?<=")[\w/\.\-]+(?=",)!' |
sort > nmap.alpn;
diff iana nmap.alpn | grep '<'
< co
< postgresql
$ curl --silent ${URL} --output...
[PATCH 0/1] Updated ALPN IDs (Mon, 26 Aug 2024 17:55:25 GMT) Ariel Otilibili (Sep 15)
Hello,
Herewith the PR containing this patch: https://github.com/nmap/nmap/pull/2939
Have a good week,
Ariel
Ariel Otilibili (1):
Updated ALPN IDs
scripts/tls-alpn.nse | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
npcap accuracy Dupuit, Cyril via dev (Sep 04)
Hello,
I posted a comment to pcap_sendqueue_transmit() accuracy * Issue #750 * nmap/npcap
(github.com)<https://github.com/nmap/npcap/issues/750> concerning npcap accuracy.
I did some tests with a modified version of NPF_BufferedWrite() to check accuracy by using a Profitap (hardware
timestamp).
I tried to propose a modification on npcap project without success.
How can I propose a change to the project ?
Best regards,
Cyril...
Increase service probes max line length Reece (Jul 07)
I created a PR on github to increase the probe line length, we created a
custom probe for our own purposes to detect quic based on a tcpdump packet,
but it's quite long so went over the line length, this, the PR increases
the line length and adds a nicer error if you hit the max:
https://github.com/nmap/nmap/pull/2803
Currently we are applying it as a patch in our build infra but would be
great to get it upstream.
Note: this became an...
Automatic protocol selection? Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk (Jul 06)
Hi all
Sometimes I use nmap in my scripts and since I'm in a mixed environment, where most of the hosts are dual protocol, not
all are, and some are only on IPv4 or IPv6, depending on the type of equipment and their function. Most other software,
will just default to a single protocol, typically IPv6, and then fall back to the other if the first fails. At first I
thought using the -6 flag would do so (as it says 'Enable IPv6...
Fix ndiff.bat issue on Windows georges.zwing (Jul 04)
Hi,
I created this PR <https://github.com/nmap/nmap/pull/2865> to fix this
issue <https://github.com/nmap/nmap/issues/2733> running ndiff.bat on
Windows. It also removes the requirement to have Python installed separately
from Zenmap.
But I don't see the Travis CI build tests mentioned in
https://github.com/nmap/nmap/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md in the PR. Should I
look somewhere else?
Regards,
Georges
The Turkish translation of man page Çınar Fidanboy (Jul 04)
Hello dear Nmap developers,
I'm a Nmap user from Turkey and i translated the Man page into turkish.
The translation file (nmap-man-tr.xml) is attached to this email.
If you have any questions or suggestions, you can reply to this email
have a nice day.
nmap-man-tr.xml
<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vGghQABpok5x_q9yAWZuX9aXV94AyOG6/view?usp=drivesdk>
info on version/SFW info of an open port b3rt-pr0t0n via dev (Jul 04)
Hello,
TFTP BusyBox v1.24.1
Running on a QNAP NAS
69/udp open tftp
| tftp-version:
| If you know the name or version of the software running on this port, please submit it to dev () nmap org along with
the following inform
ation:
| opcode: 5
| errcode: 1
| length: 27
| rport: 69|_ errmsg: No Such File/No Access
Kr,
Bert_______________________________________________
Sent through the dev mailing list
https://nmap.org/mailman/listinfo/dev...
npcap finds adapters in 32 bit mode, but not in 64 bit mode Almog Sharon (Jul 04)
im using visual studio 2022
Im using npcap version 1.79 with the sdk version 1.13
I linked everything to the project (the x64 version of the libraries +
include) but it doesnt find any adapters in the 64 bit version.
*************************************************
OS Info:
*************************************************
Caption : Microsoft Windows 10 Pro
BuildNumber : 19045
Locale : 040d...
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Nmap 7.95 released: OS and service detection signatures galore! Gordon Fyodor Lyon (May 05)
Dear Nmap Community,
I just arrived in San Francisco for the RSA conference and am delighted to
announce our Nmap Version 7.95 release! I'm most excited that we finally
tackled our backlog of OS and service detection fingerprint submissions.
We're not talking about dozens or hundreds of them-we processed more than
6,500 fingerprints!
For OS detection, we added 336 signatures, bringing the new total to 6,036.
Additions include iOS 15...
Npcap Celebrates its 10th Anniversary In Space! Gordon Fyodor Lyon (Oct 05)
Dear Nmap community,
Last month we celebrated Nmap's 26th birthday and today I'm happy to share
another big milestone: Our Npcap driver for capturing and sending raw
packets on Windows turned 10 this year! From humble beginnings as a
security and modernization patch for the discontinued WinPcap project,
Npcap has become an indispensable component for both Nmap and Wireshark.
And it's used by hundreds of other software products and...
Nmap 26th Birthday Announcement: Version 7.94 Gordon Fyodor Lyon (Sep 01)
Dear Nmap community,
Today is Nmap’s 26th birthday, which reminded me that I hadn’t yet
announced our Nmap 7.94 release from May. And it’s a great one! The biggest
improvement was the Zenmap and Ndiff upgrades from the obsolete Python 2
language to Python 3 on all platforms. Big thanks to Daniel Miller, Jakub
Kulík, Brian Quigley, Sam James, Eli Schwartz, Romain Leonard, Varunram
Ganesh, Pavel Zhukov, Carey Balboa, and Hasan Aliyev for...
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SEC Consult SA-20240930-0 :: Local Privilege Escalation via MSI Installer in Nitro PDF Pro (CVE-2024-35288) SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab via Fulldisclosure (Sep 30)
<<< application/pkcs7-signature; name="smime.p7s": Unrecognized >>>
Backdoor.Win32.Benju.a / Unauthenticated Remote Command Execution malvuln (Sep 28)
Discovery / credits: Malvuln (John Page aka hyp3rlinx) (c) 2024
Original source:
https://malvuln.com/advisory/88922242e8805bfbc5981e55fdfadd71.txt
Contact: malvuln13 () gmail com
Media: x.com/malvuln
Threat: Backdoor.Win32.Benju.a
Vulnerability: Unauthenticated Remote Command Execution
Family: Benju
Type: PE32
MD5: 88922242e8805bfbc5981e55fdfadd71
SHA256: 7d34804173e09d0f378dfc8c9212fe77ff51f08c9d0b73d00a19b7045ddc1f0e
Vuln ID: MVID-2024-0700...
Backdoor.Win32.Prorat.jz / Remote Stack Buffer Overflow (SEH) malvuln (Sep 28)
Discovery / credits: Malvuln (John Page aka hyp3rlinx) (c) 2024
Original source:
https://malvuln.com/advisory/277f9a4db328476300c4da5f680902ea.txt
Contact: malvuln13 () gmail com
Media: x.com/malvuln
Threat: Backdoor.Win32.Prorat.jz
Vulnerability: Remote Stack Buffer Overflow (SEH)
Description: The RAT listens on TCP ports 51100,5112,5110 and runs an
FTP service. Prorat uses a vulnerable component in a secondary malware
it drops on the victim...
Backdoor.Win32.Amatu.a / Remote Arbitrary File Write (RCE) malvuln (Sep 28)
Discovery / credits: Malvuln (John Page aka hyp3rlinx) (c) 2024
Original source:
https://malvuln.com/advisory/1e2d0b90ffc23e00b743c41064bdcc6b.txt
Contact: malvuln13 () gmail com
Media: x.com/malvuln
Threat: Backdoor.Win32.Amatu.a
Vulnerability: Remote Arbitrary File Write (RCE)
Family: Amatu
Type: PE32
MD5: 1e2d0b90ffc23e00b743c41064bdcc6b
SHA256: 77fff9931013ab4de6d4be66ca4fda47be37b6f706a7062430ee8133c7521297
Vuln ID: MVID-2024-0698
Dropped...
Backdoor.Win32.Agent.pw / Remote Stack Buffer Overflow (SEH) malvuln (Sep 28)
Discovery / credits: Malvuln (John Page aka hyp3rlinx) (c) 2024
Original source:
https://malvuln.com/advisory/68dd7df213674e096d6ee255a7b90088.txt
Contact: malvuln13 () gmail com
Media: x.com/malvuln
Threat: Backdoor.Win32.Agent.pw
Vulnerability: Remote Stack Buffer Overflow (SEH)
Description: The malware listens on TCP port 21111. Third-party
attackers who can reach an infected machine can send specially crafted
sequential packetz triggering a...
Backdoor.Win32.Boiling / Remote Command Execution malvuln (Sep 28)
Discovery / credits: Malvuln (John Page aka hyp3rlinx) (c) 2024
Original source:
https://malvuln.com/advisory/80cb490e5d3c4205434850eff6ef5f8f.txt
Contact: malvuln13 () gmail com
Media: x.com/malvuln
Threat: Backdoor.Win32.Boiling
Vulnerability: Unauthenticated Remote Command Execution
Description: The malware listens on TCP port 4369. Third party
adversaries who can reach an infected host, can issue single OS
commands to takeover the system...
Defense in depth -- the Microsoft way (part 88): a SINGLE command line shows about 20, 000 instances of CWE-73 Stefan Kanthak (Sep 28)
Hi @ll,
<https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/73.html>
CWE-73: External Control of File Name or Path
is a well-known and well-documented weakness.
<https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Mar/48> as well as
<https://skanthak.homepage.t-online.de/offender.html> demonstrate how to
(ab)use just one instance of this weakness (introduced about 7 years ago
with Microsoft Defender, so-called "security software") due to...
SEC Consult SA-20240925-0 :: Uninstall Password Bypass in BlackBerry CylanceOPTICS Windows Installer Package (CVE-2024-35214) SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab via Fulldisclosure (Sep 28)
SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab Security Advisory < 20240925-0 >
=======================================================================
title: Uninstall Password Bypass
product: BlackBerry CylanceOPTICS Windows Installer Package
vulnerable version: CylanceOPTICS <3.3 MR2
CylanceOPTICS <3.2 MR5
fixed version: CylanceOPTICS 3.3 MR2
CylanceOPTICS...
Apple iOS 17.2.1 - Screen Time Passcode Retrieval (Mitigation Bypass) Patrick via Fulldisclosure (Sep 28)
Document Title:
===============
Apple iOS 17.2.1 - Screen Time Passcode Retrieval (Mitigation Bypass)
Release Date:
=============
2024-09-24
Affected Product(s):
====================
Vendor: Apple Inc.
Product: Apple iOS 17.2.1 (possibly all < 18.0 excluding 18.0)
References:
====================
VIDEO PoC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVvk9TR7qMo
The vulnerability has been patched in the latest release of the operating
system (iOS...
CyberDanube Security Research 20240919-0 | Multiple Vulnerabilities in Netman204 Thomas Weber via Fulldisclosure (Sep 23)
CyberDanube Security Research 20240919-0
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
title| Multiple Vulnerabilities
product| Netman 204
vulnerable version| 4.05
fixed version| -
CVE number| CVE-2024-8877, CVE-2024-8878
impact| High
homepage| https://www.riello-ups.com/
found| 2024-05-17
by| D....
Submit Exploit CVE-2024-42831 arfaoui haythem (Sep 23)
# Exploit Title: Reflected XSS in Elaine's Realtime CRM Automation v6.18.17
# Date: 09/2024
# Exploit Author: Haythem Arfaoui (CBTW Team)
# Vendor Homepage: https://www.elaine.io/
# Software Link:
https://www.elaine.io/en/products/elaine-marketing-automation/
# Version: 6.18.17 and below
# Tested on: Windows, Linux
# CVE : CVE-2024-42831
# Description
A reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Elaine's Realtime
CRM...
Stored XSS in "Edit Profile" - htmlyv2.9.9 Andrey Stoykov (Sep 18)
# Exploit Title: Stored XSS in "Edit Profile" - htmlyv2.9.9
# Date: 9/2024
# Exploit Author: Andrey Stoykov
# Version: 2.9.9
# Tested on: Ubuntu 22.04
# Blog:
https://msecureltd.blogspot.com/2024/09/friday-fun-pentest-series-11-stored-xss.html
Stored XSS #1:
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Login as author
2. Browse to "Edit Profile"
3. In "Content" field add payload "><img src=x onerror=alert(1)>
4. Then...
Stored XSS in "Menu Editor" - htmlyv2.9.9 Andrey Stoykov (Sep 18)
# Exploit Title: Stored XSS in "Menu Editor" - htmlyv2.9.9
# Date: 9/2024
# Exploit Author: Andrey Stoykov
# Version: 2.9.9
# Tested on: Ubuntu 22.04
# Blog:
https://msecureltd.blogspot.com/2024/09/friday-fun-pentest-series-10-stored-xss.html
Stored XSS #1:
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Login as admin
2. Browse to "Menu Editor"
3. In "Name" field add payload "><img src=x onerror=alert(1)>
4. In...
Backdoor.Win32.BlackAngel.13 / Unauthenticated Remote Command Execution malvuln (Sep 18)
Discovery / credits: Malvuln (John Page aka hyp3rlinx) (c) 2024
Original source:
https://malvuln.com/advisory/d1523df44da5fd40df92602b8ded59c8.txt
Contact: malvuln13 () gmail com
Media: x.com/malvuln
Threat: Backdoor.Win32.BlackAngel.13
Vulnerability: Unauthenticated Remote Command Execution
Description: The malware listens on TCP port 1850. Third party
adversaries who can reach an infected host can issue commands made
available by the backdoor....
Backdoor.Win32.CCInvader.10 / Authentication Bypass malvuln (Sep 18)
Discovery / credits: Malvuln (John Page aka hyp3rlinx) (c) 2024
Original source:
https://malvuln.com/advisory/cb86af8daa35f6977c80814ec6e40d63.txt
Contact: malvuln13 () gmail com
Media: x.com/malvuln
Threat: Backdoor.Win32.CCInvader.10
Vulnerability: Authentication Bypass
Description: The malware runs an FTP server. Third-party adversarys
who can reach infected systems can logon using any username/password
combination. Intruders may then upload...
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As you know, humans like to invent comfort words. One of my favorites is
"luck". The theory being that yes, the universe has dice, but they are
loaded in your favor. Properly used, these words are a spell - they allow
us to have courage when a sober mind would quail. But when you become a
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Re: sboms and LLMs Adrian Sanabria via Dailydave (Sep 12)
We've been talking about and giving "Beyond the SBOM" presentations for a
while now, but to your point, I don't see anyone actually doing it.
If Solarwinds said "here's a script that will lock down your host firewall
to just the outbound access our tools need to update themselves", that
would be amazing, and would have saved everyone some time and trouble a few
years ago.
[image: image.png]
And Biden's EO...
Re: sboms and LLMs Isaac Dawson via Dailydave (Sep 12)
Well this is rather timely! Although I'm not sure using an LLM for the
behavioral aspect is entirely necessary. I've been working on an
experimental system that does just what you talk about for dependencies (
https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/application_security/dependency_scanning/experiment_libbehave_dependency.html,
pre-alpha!). My solution uses static analysis because I'm a fan of
determinism.
Snark aside, looking at behaviors...
sboms and LLMs Dave Aitel via Dailydave (Sep 11)
People doing software security often use LLMs more as orchestrators than
anything else. But there's so many more complicated ways to use them in our
space coming down the pipe. Obviously the next evolution of SBOMs
<https://www.cisa.gov/resources-tools/resources/cisa-sbom-rama> is that
they represent not just what is contained in the code as some static tree
of library dependencies, but also what that code does in a summary fashion...
Re: Persistence and Strategic Effects the grugq via Dailydave (Aug 16)
Cyber is Calvinball.
I gave a talk back in 2015 [1] which I think has held up rather well. My argument was that cyber is evolving in
unpredictable ways as we learn more about the domain. That the current state of the art has huge blind spots we aren’t
even thinking about. The next year was, of course, the 2016 disinformation campaign fed by cyber loot.
I feel that a great deal of cyber war literature is based on knowledge derived from...
Persistence and Strategic Effects Dave Aitel via Dailydave (Aug 15)
Before there were words, calculated as the softmax of a list of possible
tokens, there were just vectors of nano-electrical potential in cells
soaked in a hormonal brew of electrolytes, operating on a clock cycle of
"slow, but fast enough". In this sense, as we now know
<https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10472538/>, we generate words
and we know, in our heads, what we are, in the same way as we generate
limbs, with each...
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But while you are at it, always good to watch a video for no reason:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVXrl4W1jOU
-dave
Re: "Exploitation Less Likely" Don A. Bailey via Dailydave (Aug 13)
"Exploitation Less Likely" Dave Aitel via Dailydave (Aug 12)
DefCon is a study in cacophony, and like many of you I'm still digging
through my backlog of new research in multifarious browser tabs, the way a
dragonfly keeps track of the world through scintillated compound lenses. In
between AIxCC (which proved, if anything, the boundaries
<https://dashboard.aicyberchallenge.com/collectivesolvehealth> of automated
bug finding using current LLM tech?), James Kettle's timing attack research...
PRANA Hack and Leak Report Release Dave Aitel via Dailydave (Aug 02)
Cordyceps Analysis Report on PRANA Network Hack and Leak Operation:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oOJbBTUwyK85ZKYAAdwWqxk-sMvqrBqzJYX1oziTFu4/edit?usp=sharing
Lately I've been reading a lot of academic papers, mostly the Research
Handbook on Cyberwarfare
<https://www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/book/9781803924854/book-part-9781803924854-6.xml>.
Some of them are good papers! JD Work has a paper in it! But also some of
them get...
Re: LLMs and refusals David Manouchehri via Dailydave (Jul 28)
Breaking down a prompt into multiple steps works pretty well for us. e.g.
first we get generic mean reasons:
[image: image.png]
Then I just shove the mean reasons into the system message (you can do this
with another LLM call instead in real life, I just cheated by copy pasting
since there's already too many screenshots in this email):
[image: image.png]
This is with gpt-4o-2024-05-13 above, but you can see below it works with
Llama 3.1...
Re: LLMs and refusals Jason Ross via Dailydave (Jul 25)
It's likely this is going to happen anyway, the new Mistral just dropped
and seems to perform roughly on par with llama3 and gpt4o, so the next wave
of fine tuned versions like dolphin are almost certainly coming soon.
OpenAI also has announced free fine tuning of gpt4o mini until late
September (up to 2m tokens/day) so it may be possible to fine tune around
some of its guardrails for a reasonable cost.
Re: LLMs and refusals Robert Lee via Dailydave (Jul 24)
LLMs and refusals Dave Aitel via Dailydave (Jul 24)
[image: image.png]
Above: LLAMA3.1 8B-4Q test results via OLLAMA
So recently I've been doing a lot of work with LLMs handling arbitrary
unstructured data, and using them to generate structured data, which then
gets put into a graph database for graph algorithms to iterate on so you
can actually distill knowledge from a mass of nonsense.
But obviously this can get expensive via APIs, so like many of you, I set
up a server with a A6000 that...
Felt Vampires in Policy World And You Dave Aitel via Dailydave (Jun 12)
Can a hamster do interprocedural analysis? What size of hamster can turn a
tier-2 geopolitical adversary's cyber force into a tier-1 adversary? Is the
best use of a hamster finding 0day or orchestrating the offensive
operations themselves? These are all great questions for policy teams to
ponder and they pontificate over how to properly regulate AI.
On one hand, as a technologist, your tendency will be to try to explain to
policy teams what...
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PowerDNS Security Advisory 2024-04 Otto Moerbeek (Oct 03)
Hello,
Today we have released PowerDNS Recursor 4.9.9, 5.0.9 and 5.1.2.
These releases fix PowerDNS Security Advisory 2024-04: Crafted
responses can lead to a denial of service due to cache inefficiencies
in the Recursor.
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CVE-2024-47554: Apache Commons IO: Possible denial of service attack on untrusted input to XmlStreamReader Gary D. Gregory (Oct 03)
Severity: low
Affected versions:
- Apache Commons IO 2.0 before 2.14.0
Description:
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in Apache Commons IO.
The org.apache.commons.io.input.XmlStreamReader class may excessively consume CPU resources when processing maliciously
crafted input.
This issue affects Apache Commons IO: from 2.0 before 2.14.0.
Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.14.0 or later, which fixes the issue....
CVE-2024-47561: Apache Avro Java SDK: Arbitrary Code Execution when reading Avro Data (Java SDK) Martin Tzvetanov Grigorov (Oct 03)
Severity: critical
Affected versions:
- Apache Avro Java SDK before 1.11.4
Description:
Schema parsing in the Java SDK of Apache Avro 1.11.3 and previous versions allows bad actors to execute arbitrary code.
Users are recommended to upgrade to version 1.11.4 or 1.12.0, which fix this issue.
Credit:
Kostya Kortchinsky, from the Databricks Security Team (finder)
References:
https://avro.apache.org/...
Multiple vulnerabilities in Jenkins and Jenkins plugins Daniel Beck (Oct 02)
Jenkins is an open source automation server which enables developers around
the world to reliably build, test, and deploy their software.
The following releases contain fixes for security vulnerabilities:
* Jenkins 2.479
* Jenkins LTS 2.462.3
* Credentials Plugin 1381.v2c3a_12074da_b_
* OpenId Connect Authentication Plugin 4.355.v3a_fb_fca_b_96d4
Summaries of the vulnerabilities are below. More details, severity, and
attribution can be found...
CVE-2024-45772: Apache Lucene Replicator: Deserialization of Untrusted Data Robert Muir (Sep 28)
Severity: low
Affected versions:
- Apache Lucene Replicator 4.4.0 before 9.12.0
Description:
Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability in Apache Lucene Replicator.
This issue affects Apache Lucene's replicator module: from 4.4.0 before 9.12.0.
The deprecated org.apache.lucene.replicator.http package is affected.
The org.apache.lucene.replicator.nrt package is not affected.
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Re: CVE-2024-40761: Apache Answer: Avatar URL leaked user email addresses Sam Bull (Sep 27)
For WordPress websites that I host, I have code which caches the gravatar images on the
server and serves them directly.
My main goal was to disallow Gravatar tracking users across our websites (enforced with a
Content-Security-Policy in addition to rewriting the image URLs). But, it does also
rewrite the hashes used when served to the client. So, this could be used to avoid leaking
user addresses.
Not sure if that can apply to this software as...
Re: List linux CVEs for a given stable release? Greg Kroah-Hartman (Sep 27)
Digging up an old thread, as we have new tools now....
Note that the vulns.git repo on git.kernel.org is now checking in the
output as described above, so that people can parse this data better,
and simpler.
And there is a script in there called 'strak' that will show you all
outstanding CVEs that are NOT fixed for any git commit in the Linux
kernel tree (or tag), and will also show up all CVEs that are fixed, as
of this moment in...
Re: CUPS printing system vulnerabilities Will Dormann (Sep 27)
This seems like a plausible and precise description for a vulnerability.
Yet the actual CVE entry is "cups-browsed bugs and other bugs can
combine, leading to info leak and remote code execution"
<https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/blob/07723f33d3792d747b650a873346400ca5dc2034/cves/2024/47xxx/CVE-2024-47176.json#L15>
and several unrelated CWEs are listed.
Isn't using a single CVE to capture what can happen when...
Re: CVE-2024-40761: Apache Answer: Avatar URL leaked user email addresses Fabian Bäumer (Sep 27)
I think you are right. When I wrote my response yesterday I wasn't fully
aware how Gravatar is supposed to be used. I always thought of Gravatar
as a service to generate unique avatar images.
Now, this leaves me with a few observations:
1. The 'should be taken' from Gravatar's documentation should be 'must
be taken' to ensure consistent user hashes (therefore using MD5 in
the first place rendered...
Re: CVE-2024-40761: Apache Answer: Avatar URL leaked user email addresses Alexander Patrakov (Sep 27)
I don't think that a seeded PRF (with a per-server seed) would meet
the requirements here. The problem is that Gravatar would have no way
of understanding which email is in question. Indeed, that would
require storing all emails hashed with all registered server seeds.
What would work is an email hash encrypted symmetrically with a
per-server key. Then Gravatar (who also knows this key) would decrypt
the email hash and look up the avatar...
Re: CUPS printing system vulnerabilities Michael Sweet (Sep 26)
All,
For the _ppdCreateFromIPP code in cups/ppd-cache.c, the commits for CUPS 2.5 are:
8361420cb Escape localized strings in PPDs.
dfb947e13 Fix localization of finishing templates and general presets.
5a4803788 PPDize preset and template names.
bcd720b06 Refactor make-and-model code.
96b3bdf01 Validate URIs and attribute names before putting them in the generated PPD.
The corresponding commits in the 2.4.x branch are:...
Re: CUPS printing system vulnerabilities Mark Esler (Sep 26)
I don't believe this is how distro security teams saw it. Once a
vulnerability is leaked embargo no longer exists. In this case, the
original disclosure report was fully leaked online. Since the embargo
was broken and PoCs were posted, certainly nobody would want the
originally agreed to coordinated release date (CRD) of October 6th to be
kept. The intention of holding to a same day CRD (20:00 UTC) was to
stage the available patches for...
Re: CUPS printing system vulnerabilities Zdenek Dohnal (Sep 26)
Hi Alex,
Mike has more info about those commits, I've added him in the loop here.
I'm sorry that I cannot provide much more info - there is Fedora commit
from Justin https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/cups/c/d0eba90f305d which
should cover Mike's fixes, but I don't know which was for which issue.
Zdenek
Re: CUPS printing system vulnerabilities Solar Designer (Sep 26)
Thanks Alan! On Twitter, Alan further clarified that "once it was clear
the info was out there, the distro makers wanted to end the embargo so
they could publish advisories telling users to disable cups-browsed
instead of waiting for patches to be available - those with VINCE access
had hours of prior notice, not just two."
I apologize to Simone for the unnecessary and wrong guess on whose
decision it was. I didn't have that...
Re: CUPS printing system vulnerabilities Alan Coopersmith (Sep 26)
Once it was learned that the information was leaked, the vendors suggested
ending the embargo today, and both evilsocket & OpenPrinting agreed to it,
with the coordinated end at 20:00 UTC.
OpenPrinting has started publishing fixes as well now:
CVE-2024-47175: https://github.com/OpenPrinting/libppd/commit/d681747ebf
CVE-2024-47076: https://github.com/OpenPrinting/libcupsfilters/commit/95576ec3
and a temporary workaround for CVE-2024-47176...
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Re: Input for Draft Document on Terminology in BGP/Global Routing Daniel Ankers (Oct 03)
Reading through that, there are some definitions I think could be done
better.
In section 4.2 you have:
Downstream:
In a direct relationship between two ASes the one receiving upstream
from the other. (See: [RFC9234], also known as the customer in a
customer-provider relationship.)
Upstream:
In a direct relationship between two ASes the one providing upstream to
the other. (See: [RFC9234], also known as the provider in a...
Re: Input for Draft Document on Terminology in BGP/Global Routing Tobias Fiebig (Oct 03)
Moin,
(Repost to list as my original reply had a wrong From:)
There are a couple of operations focused WGs (DNSOP, GROW) that indeed
produce mostly operational documents; And, i mean, operational guidance
is at least as old as RFC1032 (being the first one springing to my
mind; Likely older ones exist, but I don't have them at the top of my
head.).
The purpose of this document is mostly just summarizing the terms
currently used, as the...
Re: Input for Draft Document on Terminology in BGP/Global Routing Saku Ytti (Oct 02)
On Thu, 3 Oct 2024 at 07:04, Jeff Behrns via NANOG <nanog () nanog org> wrote
Not saying I agree or disagree, what is the definition of appropriate
use and how does this particular draft violate in comparison to the
existing corpus?
Someone might want to argue RFCs are for technical implementations,
but there are increasingly many RFCs with no relevance to technical
implementations at all, which are significantly more soft ball than
the...
RE: Input for Draft Document on Terminology in BGP/Global Routing Jeff Behrns via NANOG (Oct 02)
This seems like a total misuse of the RFC framework / process and more a grab at publicity, but I'll play
along...bogon. You should include the term "bogon". Someday when I'm done keeping actual production networks alive, I
may wade into the morass of IETF & IEEE and work on trimming the fat...or maybe just retire. It's a tough call.
Input for Draft Document on Terminology in BGP/Global Routing Tobias Fiebig (Oct 02)
Moin,
I have been working on a document listing terms & abbreviations used in
the context of BGP/Global Routing Operations (leftovers from the cut-
down of the attempts to update documents in BCP194):
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-fiebig-grow-routing-ops-terms/02/
I just setup a web-form to collect further terms & abbreviations people
would like to also see in the document; If you have a minute, it would
be appreciated if you...
Re: Sept. 30 Verizon outage Jared Mauch (Oct 02)
I’m hoping that some of the pushback and changes we have seen with on-shoring and supply chain diversity will continue
to improve the situation, but the global ecosystem we find ourselves in hasn’t always been in our best long-term
interests.
Mark, I’ll write a few more of my thoughts to you off-list.
- Jared
Re: Sept. 30 Verizon outage Mark Tinka (Oct 02)
I think with the squeeze on margins getting tighter and tighter, all
manner of bad things will escalate.
Mark.
Re: Zoom Contact Mark Tinka (Oct 01)
Thanks, Udeme.
Will give it a shot.
Mark.
Re: Sept. 30 Verizon outage Tim Burke (Oct 01)
I’ve been a fan of US Mobile (also not an endorsement) for this purpose - my primary line is Verizon Business, but US
Mobile provides access to all three of the major US carriers along with the ability to easily swap between them. Cheap
enough to keep as a backup esim, too.
for anyone that finds this useful, you can get a 1 year esim with 30gb of data for about $30 on a diverse carrier from
your primary, check esimdb.com<...
Re: Sept. 30 Verizon outage Eric Kuhnke (Oct 01)
Not related to Verizon or outages at all (though it certainly was going to
be a very expensive and large scale outage at the time), there's a
fascinating book about the group of investors and people who formed a new
group to acquire the "v1.0" Iridium network out of bankruptcy, turn it into
a DoD essential service/US government contractor, and run the second
corporate incarnation of Iridium....
Re: Sept. 30 Verizon outage Aaron Groom (Oct 01)
That will be an interesting read.
I recently read the book "Rogers v Rogers" that covers the major Rogers
Communications outage in Canada from a couple years ago. The book is
mostly biographical, but it lays a good historical foundation for those
events.
Anyone else have any good book recommendations?
Jared Mauch <jared () puck nether net> writes:
Re: Sept. 30 Verizon outage TJ Trout (Oct 01)
for anyone that finds this useful, you can get a 1 year esim with 30gb of
data for about $30 on a diverse carrier from your primary, check esimdb.com
(I don't work for them, just enjoy the service)
Re: Sept. 30 Verizon outage Jared Mauch (Oct 01)
Due to the scale of this I would expect an outage report to appear with the FCC in the next year.
I do think this highlights the increased frequency and impact of these outages.
Make sure you have backup plans for communications if one or more fails. While my personal impact was near nil many
people use telemetry or navigation over cellular as a service and would have been impacted. If I was for example an
uber driver impacted I may not be...
Sept. 30 Verizon outage Andy Ringsmuth (Oct 01)
Now that this is behind us, I’m wondering if anyone has heard what actually happened.
Does Verizon do after-action reports that we could find?
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Re: Zoom Contact Udeme (Sep 30)
Did you try https://www.mailop.org/?
I just took a look at the archives and don’t see any mention of a POC, but
it’s worth a try.
Udeme
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Healthcare organizations face rising ransomware attacks – and are paying up Matthew Wheeler (Jun 03)
https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/03/healthcare-ransomware-pay-sophos/
Healthcare organizations, already an attractive target for ransomware given
the highly sensitive data they hold, saw such attacks almost double between
2020 and 2021, according to a survey released this week by Sophos.
The outfit's team also found that while polled healthcare orgs are quite
likely to pay ransoms, they rarely get all of their data returned if they
do...
A digital conflict between Russia and Ukraine rages on behind the scenes of war Matthew Wheeler (Jun 03)
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SEATTLE — On the sidelines of a conference in Estonia on Wednesday, a
senior U.S. intelligence official told British outlet Sky News that the
U.S. is running offensive cyber operations in support of Ukraine.
“My job is to provide a series of options to the secretary of defense and
the president, and so that’s what I do,” said...
Researchers Uncover Malware Controlling Thousands of Sites in Parrot TDS Network Matthew Wheeler (Jun 03)
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The Parrot traffic direction system (TDS) that came to light earlier this
year has had a larger impact than previously thought, according to new
research.
Sucuri, which has been tracking the same campaign since February 2019 under
the name "NDSW/NDSX," said that "the malware was one of the top infections"
detected in 2021, accounting for more than...
FBI, CISA: Don't get caught in Karakurt's extortion web Matthew Wheeler (Jun 03)
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The Feds have warned organizations about a lesser-known extortion gang
Karakurt, which demands ransoms as high as $13 million and, some
cybersecurity folks say, may be linked to the notorious Conti crew.
In a joint advisory [PDF] this week, the FBI, CISA and US Treasury
Department outlined technical details about how Karakurt operates, along
with actions to take,...
DOJ Seizes 3 Web Domains Used to Sell Stolen Data and DDoS Services Matthew Wheeler (Jun 02)
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The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Wednesday announced the seizure of
three domains used by cybercriminals to trade stolen personal information
and facilitate distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks for hire.
This includes weleakinfo[.]to, ipstress[.]in, and ovh-booter[.]com, the
former of which allowed its users to traffic hacked personal data and
offered a...
Chinese Hackers Begin Exploiting Latest Microsoft Office Zero-Day Vulnerability Matthew Wheeler (Jun 02)
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An advanced persistent threat (APT) actor aligned with Chinese state
interests has been observed weaponizing the new zero-day flaw in Microsoft
Office to achieve code execution on affected systems.
"TA413 CN APT spotted [in-the-wild] exploiting the Follina zero-day using
URLs to deliver ZIP archives which contain Word Documents that use the
technique,"...
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In an exclusive interview, General Paul Nakasone also explained how "hunt
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hackers and identify...
SideWinder Hackers Launched Over a 1, 000 Cyber Attacks Over the Past 2 Years Matthew Wheeler (May 31)
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An "aggressive" advanced persistent threat (APT) group known as SideWinder
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out among the others, are the sheer number, high frequency and persistence
of their attacks and the large collection of encrypted and obfuscated...
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation has warned US universities and colleges
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access circulating on cybercriminals forums.
The fear is that such data will be sold and subsequently used by malicious
actors to orchestrate attacks on other accounts owned by the same students,
in the hope...
Interpol Nabs 3 Nigerian Scammers Behind Malware-based Attacks Matthew Wheeler (May 31)
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Interpol on Monday announced the arrest of three suspected global scammers
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facilitate malware-enabled cyber fraud.
"The men are thought to have used the RAT to reroute financial
transactions, stealing confidential online connection details from
corporate organizations, including oil and gas...
U.S. Warns Against North Korean Hackers Posing as IT Freelancers Matthew Wheeler (May 18)
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Highly skilled software and mobile app developers from the Democratic
People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) are posing as "non-DPRK nationals" in
hopes of landing freelance employment in an attempt to enable the regime's
malicious cyber intrusions.
That's according to a joint advisory from the U.S. Department of State, the
Department of the...
FBI and NSA say: Stop doing these 10 things that let the hackers in Matthew Wheeler (May 18)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/fbi-and-nsa-say-stop-doing-these-10-things-that-let-the-hackers-in/
Cyber attackers regularly exploit unpatched software vulnerabilities, but
they "routinely" target security misconfigurations for initial access, so
the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and its
peers have created a to-do list for defenders in today's heightened threat
environment.
CISA, the FBI and National...
Fifth of Businesses Say Cyber-Attack Nearly Broke Them Matthew Wheeler (May 18)
https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/fifth-of-businesses-cyber-attack/
A fifth of US and European businesses have warned that a serious
cyber-attack nearly rendered them insolvent, with most (87%) viewing
compromise as a bigger threat than an economic downturn, according to
Hiscox.
The insurer polled over 5000 businesses in the US, UK, Ireland, France,
Spain, Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium to compile its annual Hiscox
Cyber...
Hacker And Ransomware Designer Charged For Use And Sale Of Ransomware, And Profit Sharing Arrangements With Cybercriminals Matthew Wheeler (May 18)
https://www.shorenewsnetwork.com/2022/05/16/hacker-and-ransomware-designer-charged-for-use-and-sale-of-ransomware-and-profit-sharing-arrangements-with-cybercriminals/
A criminal complaint was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn, New
York, charging Moises Luis Zagala Gonzalez (Zagala), also known as
“Nosophoros,” “Aesculapius” and “Nebuchadnezzar,” a citizen of France and
Venezuela who resides in Venezuela, with attempted...
State of Ransomware shows huge growth in threat and impacts Matthew Wheeler (May 04)
https://www.continuitycentral.com/index.php/news/technology/7275-state-of-ransomware-shows-huge-growth-in-threat-and-impacts
Sophos has released its annual survey and review of real-world ransomware
experiences in its ‘State of Ransomware 2022’ report. This shows that 66
percent of organizations surveyed were hit with ransomware in 2021, up from
37 percent in 2020.
The average ransom paid by organizations that had data encrypted in their...
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Snort Subscriber Rules Update 2024-10-03 Research via Snort-sigs (Oct 03)
Talos Snort Subscriber Rules Update
Synopsis:
This release adds and modifies rules in several categories.
Details:
Talos has added and modified multiple rules in the malware-cnc,
malware-other and server-webapp rule sets to provide coverage for
emerging threats from these technologies.
For a complete list of new and modified rules please see:
https://www.snort.org/advisories
Snort Subscriber Rules Update 2024-10-01 Research via Snort-sigs (Oct 01)
Talos Snort Subscriber Rules Update
Synopsis:
This release adds and modifies rules in several categories.
Details:
Talos has added and modified multiple rules in the file-pdf,
malware-cnc and server-webapp rule sets to provide coverage for
emerging threats from these technologies.
For a complete list of new and modified rules please see:
https://www.snort.org/advisories
Re: [Snort-users] Network variables are not preserved when using LightSPD rules Oleksii Shumeiko -X (oshumeik - SOFTSERVE INC at Cisco) via Snort-sigs (Sep 30)
I think, you can combine approaches.
Set Lua variables before the script (it should pick them up and configure default values for all related IPS
variables), then override targeted variables after the script:
HOME_NET = 'x.x.x.x/z'
EXTERNAL_NET = 'any'
include(policy.lua)
ips.variables.net.DNS_SERVERS = 'y.y.y.y'
ips.variables.net.FOO_SERVERS = 'z.z.z.z' -- any new variable should be changed...
Re: [Snort-users] Network variables are not preserved when using LightSPD rules Oleksii Shumeiko -X (oshumeik - SOFTSERVE INC at Cisco) via Snort-sigs (Sep 30)
Hi,
You can override variables after the script is called.
Just put the following lines at the end of the main config file (snort.lua):
ips.variables.net.HOME_NET = 'x.x.x.x/z'
ips.variables.net.DNS_SERVERS = 'y.y.y.y'
ips.variables.net.EXTERNAL_NET = 'any'
ips.variables.net.FTP_SERVERS = HOME_NET
ips.variables.net.HTTP_SERVERS = HOME_NET
ips.variables.net.SIP_SERVERS = HOME_NET
ips.variables.net.SMTP_SERVERS =...
Snort Subscriber Rules Update 2024-09-26 Research via Snort-sigs (Sep 26)
Talos Snort Subscriber Rules Update
Synopsis:
This release adds and modifies rules in several categories.
Details:
Talos is releasing Snort coverage to protect against an unauthenticated
command execution vulnerability in the CUPS service found on multiple
Linux distributions (CVE-2024-47177). This vulnerability is present in
the "cups-filters" part of CUPS and allows unauthenticated users to
execute arbitrary commands via the...
Snort Subscriber Rules Update 2024-09-26 Research via Snort-sigs (Sep 26)
Talos Snort Subscriber Rules Update
Synopsis:
This release adds and modifies rules in several categories.
Details:
Talos has added and modified multiple rules in the protocol-other and
server-webapp rule sets to provide coverage for emerging threats from
these technologies.
For a complete list of new and modified rules please see:
https://www.snort.org/advisories
Re: [Snort-users] Network variables are not preserved when using LightSPD rules Dheeraj Gupta via Snort-sigs (Sep 26)
This does not work because include(policy.lua) contains
include(snort_variables.lua) which resets HOME_NET and EXTERNAL_NET to any
E.g. suppose we create snort3.lua
HOME_NET = '10.0.0.0/24'
DNS_SERVERS = '10.0.0.2'
include('/etc/snort_lightspd/lightspd/policies/3.1.0.0-0/balanced-security-and-connectivity.lua')
Running snort with -T and --dump-config
(/usr/sbin/snort --pedantic -y -c...
Re: [Snort-users] Network variables are not preserved when using LightSPD rules Dheeraj Gupta via Snort-sigs (Sep 26)
Hi Oleksii,
That is a good idea!
The only downside is that to change HOME_NET would mean changing all
connected variables (like you have shown in your example). Also if new
FOO_SERVERS variable gets introduced, it won't be set correctly until I
change the stub and account for it.
What I had in mind is setting HOME_NET='x.x.x.x/y' at top of snort.lua file
and then when include('whatever-policy.lua') happens, the...
Network variables are not preserved when using LightSPD rules Dheeraj Gupta via Snort-sigs (Sep 26)
Hi,
I have recently been experimenting with LightSPD rules with the aim of
switching to using them in our production sensor. Thanks to earlier
responders on the list, I have a clean workflow for deploying and updating
the rule files My workflow, in short, is:
- Create a stub file containing all custom snort.lua settings (alert_json,
reputation, daq etc.). This file gets changed very infrequently and
over-rides settings as defined in lightspd...
Snort Subscriber Rules Update 2024-09-24 Research via Snort-sigs (Sep 24)
Talos Snort Subscriber Rules Update
Synopsis:
This release adds and modifies rules in several categories.
Details:
Talos has added and modified multiple rules in the file-image,
file-java, file-other, malware-cnc, malware-other, os-other and
server-webapp rule sets to provide coverage for emerging threats from
these technologies.
For a complete list of new and modified rules please see:
https://www.snort.org/advisories
Snort Subscriber Rules Update 2024-09-19 Research via Snort-sigs (Sep 19)
Talos Snort Subscriber Rules Update
Synopsis:
This release adds and modifies rules in several categories.
Details:
Talos has added and modified multiple rules in the and malware-other
rule sets to provide coverage for emerging threats from these
technologies.
For a complete list of new and modified rules please see:
https://www.snort.org/advisories
Snort Subscriber Rules Update 2024-09-17 Research via Snort-sigs (Sep 17)
Talos Snort Subscriber Rules Update
Synopsis:
This release adds and modifies rules in several categories.
Details:
Talos has added and modified multiple rules in the deleted,
malware-backdoor and server-webapp rule sets to provide coverage for
emerging threats from these technologies.
For a complete list of new and modified rules please see:
https://www.snort.org/advisories
Re: Error when running snort built-in rules. Russ Combs (rucombs) via Snort-sigs (Sep 13)
It looks you are giving Snort 2 rules to Snort 3. Furthermore, the unknown keywords listed are not allowed in builtin
rules.
Take a look at this:
https://blog.snort.org/2020/12/soft-release-lightspd-new-rules-package.html
If you still have issues post more details so we can get it sorted.
Russ
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From: Snort-sigs <snort-sigs-bounces () lists snort org> on behalf of Alexander murithi via Snort-sigs...
Error when running snort built-in rules. Alexander murithi via Snort-sigs (Sep 12)
Good morning,
I've been getting the following error while running snort against the
built-in rules:
Loading /etc/snort/rules/info.rules:
ERROR: /etc/snort/rules/info.rules:24 unknown rule keyword: rawbytes.
ERROR: /etc/snort/rules/info.rules:24 unknown rule keyword: distance.
ERROR: /etc/snort/rules/info.rules:24 unknown rule keyword: rawbytes.
ERROR: /etc/snort/rules/info.rules:24 unknown rule keyword: distance.
ERROR:...
Snort Subscriber Rules Update 2024-09-12 Research via Snort-sigs (Sep 12)
Talos Snort Subscriber Rules Update
Synopsis:
This release adds and modifies rules in several categories.
Details:
Talos has added and modified multiple rules in the deleted,
malware-backdoor and server-webapp rule sets to provide coverage for
emerging threats from these technologies.
For a complete list of new and modified rules please see:
https://www.snort.org/advisories
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