Re: Intrusion Detection Evaluation Datasets

Ravi Chunduru <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.ids
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

I asked my colleagues and did some search myself. I am not sure
whether it is possible to convert from set of bytes to a integer value
and check that value within a range of arbitrary values using pcre
expression.  Any ideas?

Thanks
Ravi

On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Joel Esler <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mar 19, 2009, at 4:30 PM, Paul Schmehl wrote:
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>> --On Thursday, March 19, 2009 14:33:29 -0400 Joel Esler <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
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>>> Would this be an appropriate use for byte_test or byte_jump?
>>>
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>> That's what I was referring to when I mentioned applications.  The problem
>> with http traffic is that it's much more freeform and doesn't lend itself to
>> byte_test and byte_jump type tests.
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> I'd probably use a combination of isdataat and pcre for this.  As Marty
> said, 99.9999% of things can be found with plaintext Snort rules.  Anything
> else, you can use an .so rule for.
>
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> Joel Esler T: 302-223-5974 (-) Gtalk: [email protected]
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