Time to own your rules - PulledPork 0.3.4 Released!

After what seems like forever since I have made a post about anything, I am pleased to announce the general availability of the latest version of PulledPork! This new version (v0.3.4) has a significant number of bugfixes for a variety of OS/distributions in addition to the numerous feature enhancements noted below.

I would like to thank all of the individuals that provided beta testing assistance and valuable feedback. I would also like to thank all of the users that have adopted PulledPork and sent in comments / feature requests. PulledPork certainly would not be where it is without your support and contributions!

Now that we are through the mushy stuff, on to the features!

VRT Rulesets! - Support metadata based VRT recommended rulesets - The short of it is that you can now specify a default pre-defined ruleset, yes.. this ruleset was designed by the VRT! The individual pre-defined rulesets that can be specified are fairly straightforward:

• Connectivity - You run a lot of real time applications (VOIP, financial transactions, etc), and don't want to run any rules that could affect the current performance of your sensor. The rules in this category make snort happy, additionally this category focuses on the high profile most likely to affect the largest number of people type of vulnerabilities.

• Balanced - You are normal, you run normal stuff and you want normal security protections. This is the best policy to start from if you are new, old, or just plain average. If you don't have any special requirements for super high speeds or super secure networks, start here.

• Security - You don't care about dropping your bosses email, everything in your environment is tightly regulated and you don't tolerate people stepping outside of your security policy. This policy hates on IM, P2P, vulnerabilities, malware, web apps that cause productivity loss, remote access, and just about anything not related to getting work done. If you run your network with an iron fist, start here!

Changelog - This feature allows you to specify that you want a changelog (any rule that has any change in it from your previous ruleset, i.e. disabled, enabled, modified etc..) maintained for any and all changes, in a specified log file.

Inline Drops - This feature allows you to specify what SIDs you want to be set to drop, for those running an inline setup!

Multiline Rules - Added full support for parsing of multiline rules.

Enhancements - Many minor enhancements made to the debugging output, speed enhancements, code cleanup, error handling etc...

There are quite a few runtime options and configuration options, please be sure to read through the README files thoroughly, also please be sure to use the latest pulledpork.conf that is included in the tarball! That's about it for now, please feel free to participate by asking questions on the mail list at http://groups.google.com/group/pulledpork-users/ or on freenode in #snort or #pulledpork

One final note, all of the release tarballs will now be named as pulledpork-X.X.X.tar.gz to help out with those maintaining packages and ports, thanks!

Download the tarball here pulledpork-0.3.4.tar.gz
MD5SUM = 034f90a2555c5f82e760b0ce68489ad2
SHA256 = 8b775e6476d653733f3d29ea9c962a76feaf148f3204a90fd47c646802448b80

Cheers,
JJC