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Re: [Snort-users] snort_decoder

Subject: Re: [Snort-users] snort_decoder
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 21:53:39 -0400
Actually, they're protocol "anomalies", which is a great illustration of the point that protocol anomaly detection is relies on people to care a whole lot about stuff that doesn't mean anything to most people...

     -Marty


On Jul 17, 2005, at 7:26 PM, Joel Esler wrote:

No, they are decoder "errors" telling you that a packet that has "tcp options" "with bad lengths" has been found and that (maybe another packet) that the tcp options have been truncated.

Most people I know shut these off.

You can find out to shut these off in the snort.conf or in the snort manual.

joel


On Jul 17, 2005, at 4:17 PM, Angelita de Cássia Corrêa wrote:

Do these alerts mean false positives?

(snort_decoder): Tcp Options found with bad lengths
(snort_decoder): Truncated Tcp Options


Thanks





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