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Subject:    [Snort-sigs] Snort.org Blog: The Sourcefire VRT Community ruleset is live!
From:       Joel Esler <jesler () sourcefire ! com>
Date:       2013-03-27 14:39:51
Message-ID: 6CF09AF3-D161-4470-9BD0-25D36C752679 () sourcefire ! com
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The Sourcefire VRT Community ruleset is live!

As I discussed last week in my blog post concerning the recent VRT Rule license \
changes (blog post can be found here:  \
http://blog.snort.org/2013/03/vrt-rule-license-change-v20.html), the community \
ruleset, something we've been planning here in the VRT is finally live!

The Community Ruleset is a GPLv2 VRT certified ruleset that is distributed free of \
charge without the VRT License restrictions, without delay, and without oinkcode \
restriction.  It consists of the original GPLv2 rules (SIDs 3464 and below) as well \
as any rules that have been submitted to us to date for inclusion in the VRT ruleset.

This ruleset is updated daily and is a subset of the subscriber ruleset. If you are a \
VRT Subscriber, the community ruleset is already built into your download.  The \
subscriber ruleset will continue to be published on Tuesdays and Thursdays. 

If you are a registered user (under the 30-day delay) you may also include this \
ruleset in your Snort installation to stay current.  If there are SID conflicts when \
Snort starts up between the two rulesets Snort will always take the higher revision \
number or "rev".  In most cases this will be the community ruleset.

The ruleset is designed for the most recent version of Snort. (As of today, 2.9.4.1)  \
This isn't to say that the ruleset won't function on older versions of Snort, we just \
design this up to date and living ruleset for  the most current version of Snort in \
production.

There are no shared object rules in the community rulepack.

You may download the Community ruleset by editing your pulledpork.conf and adding the \
following line to your "rule_url" section: \
rule_url=https://s3.amazonaws.com/snort-org/www/rules/community/|community-rules.tar.gz|Community


The SVN version of pulledpork also contains this functionality, and a new release of \
pulledpork will be pushed soon.

The authors of the rules in the community ruleset are listed in the AUTHORS file \
inside the tarball.

If you would like to submit to the community ruleset, you may do so by emailing your \
rule to vrt [at] sourcefire [dot] com.  We require a pcap for the traffic your rule \
is supposed to detect, and in lieu of a pcap, references, screenshots or something \
needs to be provided to give us some indication of what your rule is written to fire \
on.

Rules submitted to the VRT on the Snort-sigs mailing list will also go into the \
community ruleset with full attribution to the author.

We look forward to working with you all and the many people that have already \
submitted rules to us in order to make this a vibrant living and breathing ruleset!  \
It's been a long time coming, so thanks for being patient with us!

If there are any questions, please send them to the Snort-sigs mailing list listed \
                above!
--
Joel Esler
Senior Research Engineer, VRT
OpenSource Community Manager
Sourcefire


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Sourcefire VRT Community ruleset is live!</h1> As I discussed last week in my blog \
post concerning the recent VRT Rule license changes (blog post can be found here: \
&nbsp;<a href="http://blog.snort.org/2013/03/vrt-rule-license-change-v20.html" \
class="">http://blog.snort.org/2013/03/vrt-rule-license-change-v20.html</a>), the <b \
class="">community ruleset</b>, something we've been planning here in the VRT is \
finally live!<br class=""> <br class="">
The Community Ruleset is a GPLv2 <i class="">VRT certified</i> ruleset that is \
distributed free of charge without the VRT License restrictions, without delay, and \
without oinkcode restriction. &nbsp;It consists of the original GPLv2 rules (SIDs \
3464 and below) as well as any rules that have been submitted to us to date for \
inclusion in the VRT ruleset.<br class=""> <br class="">
This ruleset is updated daily and is a subset of the subscriber ruleset. If you are a \
VRT Subscriber, the community ruleset is already built into your download. &nbsp;The \
subscriber ruleset will continue to be published on Tuesdays and Thursdays. <br \
class=""> <br class="">
If you are a registered user (under the 30-day delay) you may also include this \
ruleset in your Snort installation to stay current. &nbsp;If there are SID conflicts \
when Snort starts up between the two rulesets Snort will always take the higher \
revision number or "rev". &nbsp;In most cases this will be the community ruleset.<br \
class=""> <br class="">
The ruleset is designed for the most recent version of Snort. (As of today, 2.9.4.1) \
&nbsp;This isn't to say that the ruleset won't function on older versions of Snort, \
we just design this up to date and living ruleset for &nbsp;the most current version \
of Snort in production.<br class=""> <br class="">
There are no shared object rules in the community rulepack.<br class="">
<br class="">
You may download the Community ruleset by&nbsp;editing your pulledpork.conf and \
adding the following line to your "rule_url" section:<br class=""> <code \
class="">rule_url=<a \
href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/snort-org/www/rules/community/|community-rules.tar.gz|C \
ommunity">https://s3.amazonaws.com/snort-org/www/rules/community/|community-rules.tar.gz|Community</a></code><br \
class=""> <br class="">
The SVN version of pulledpork also contains this functionality, and a new release of \
pulledpork will be pushed soon.<br class=""> <br class="">
The authors of the rules in the community ruleset are listed in the AUTHORS file \
inside the tarball.<br class=""> <br class="">
If you would like to submit to the community ruleset, you may do so by emailing your \
rule to vrt [at] sourcefire [dot] com. &nbsp;We require a pcap for the traffic your \
rule is supposed to detect, and in lieu of a pcap, references, screenshots or <i \
class="">something</i>&nbsp;needs to be provided to give us some indication of what \
your rule is written to fire on.<br class=""> <br class="">
Rules submitted to the VRT on the <a \
href="http://www.snort.org/community/mailing-lists" target="_blank" \
class="">Snort-sigs mailing list</a>&nbsp;will also go into the community ruleset \
with full attribution to the author.<br class=""> <br class="">
We look forward to working with you all and the many people that have already \
submitted rules to us in order to make this a vibrant living and breathing ruleset! \
&nbsp;It's been a long time coming, so thanks for being patient with us!<br class=""> \
<br class=""> If there are any questions, please send them to the Snort-sigs mailing \
list listed above! <p class=""></p>
</div></div></div></span><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; \
">--</span><br><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; "><b>Joel \
Esler</b></span><br><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; \
">Senior Research Engineer, VRT</span><br><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: \
'Lucida Grande'; ">OpenSource Community Manager</span><br><span style="font-size: \
12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; ">Sourcefire</span></span></body></html>



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