Re: [Snort-sigs] False negative in 3087.1 (WEB-IIS w3who.dll buffer overflow attempt)

On  0, Frank Knobbe <frank@knobbe.us> allegedly wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 07:22 -0600, Nigel Houghton wrote:
> > You wouldn't use "http://"; with uricontent now would you?
>
> Yes you would. Every URI request going through a proxy server looks like
> this:  "GET http://www.host.com/blah.html";

Sorry didn't realize you were analyzing proxy traffic. Looking back at
your other posts I don't know how I missed that, duh!

You'll have to get rid of a "/" in the http:// for the request to the
proxy then.

> So the http:// is part of the URI.
>
> I just spent hours last night retrofitting Bleeding rules so that any
> "GET /" or "POST /" matches (which would fail on proxied connections)
> would also recognize host names.
>
> I see only two rules in the Snort rule set that might be affected,
> sid:306 and sid:1881. The nature of these rules do not warrant a change,
> though. They are fine.
>
> Regards,
> Frank

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     Nigel Houghton      Research Engineer       Sourcefire Inc.
                   Vulnerability Research Team

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