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Re: [Snort-sigs] False positive in 1777.6 (FTP EXPLOIT STAT * dos attemp

Subject: Re: [Snort-sigs] False positive in 1777.6 (FTP EXPLOIT STAT * dos attempt)
Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 15:17:51 -0700
From: Brian <bmc@snort.org>
On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 02:22:43PM -0700, nnposter wrote:
...with a regular expression to ensure that the whole pattern is
a single line, resembling a FTP command:

pcre:"/^\s*STAT[ \t]+[^\n]*?\*/mi";

So, what is the ? for?

Is greediness deterministically or statistically faster here?

Cheers,
nnposter


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