Web-activex, Specific-threats, Web-client and Multimedia Additions

January 20th, 2009

The Sourcefire VRT has added multiple rules to the web-activex, specific-threats, web-client and multimedia rule sets to provide coverage for emerging threats from these technologies.

Details: 

Security Fix - This module pack resolves a potential recursive evaluation DoS condition in SO rules that utilize the built-in content match API function. Sourcefire recommends installing this release as soon as possible if high latency is encountered when dealing with large SMB file transfers.
 
As a result of ongoing research, the Sourcefire VRT has added multiple rules to the web-activex, specific-threats, web-client and multimedia rule sets to provide coverage for emerging threats from these technologies.

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