Re: [Emerging-Sigs] Errors with the Snort manual

[Joel Esler <jesler () sourcefire com>]

Evilghost,

I have to go off of the current version of the manual, as we put out
corrections and additions to the manual with every version of Snort.

I am looking at the 2.8.5.1 version that is currently on Snort.org, the
REGEX in 3.5.6 reads:
"/ABC.{1}DEF/" and the example is (content:"ABC"; content:"DEF";
distance:1;).
This is correct.

In 3.5.7 it says "This rule constrains the search of EFG to not go past 10
bytes past the ABC match."

The example is (content:"ABC"; content:"EFG"; within:10;) -- which is
correct.

As for there being no "D".  There is nothing mentioned about the letter D.

J

On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 2:37 PM, evilghost () packetmail net <
evilghost () packetmail net> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> There was a discussion on ET about some errors in the Snort manual.  I
> cannot remember if I reported these or not.  The Snort 2.8.4 manual
> appears to be inaccurate or wrong in a few places, specifically:
>
> Page #114, section 3.5.6, the REGEX used to explain figure 3.16 is
> incorrect.
> Page #114, section 3.5.7, the "10 bytes past the ABCDE match" verbiage
> is incorrect, there is no "D" in figure 3.17 nor is the explanation of
> figure 3.17 correct.
>
> I did not check 2.8.5 but I assume these may persist there as well.
>
> Thanks
> -evilghost
>
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