How often are the IPS signatures updated? For instance this advisory was just posted @ https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA17-164A
Thanks
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The mentioned vulnerabilities are old ones which should be included in the actual IPS Patterns.
If you want detailed information regarding the vulnerabilities and how Fortinet protect you against them, you can do a search in the FortiGuard Database:
[link]http://fortiguard.com/[/link]
Regards
bommi
NSE 4/5/7
The IPS Definition is updated with a daily release from Tuesday to Friday every week. You can check the IPS release log to see if a particular CVE or vulnerability is covered. Alternatively, you can send an email to vulnwatch@fortinet.com or ips@fortinet.com to ask.
HoMing
The mentioned vulnerabilities are old ones which should be included in the actual IPS Patterns.
If you want detailed information regarding the vulnerabilities and how Fortinet protect you against them, you can do a search in the FortiGuard Database:
[link]http://fortiguard.com/[/link]
Regards
bommi
NSE 4/5/7
The IPS Definition is updated with a daily release from Tuesday to Friday every week. You can check the IPS release log to see if a particular CVE or vulnerability is covered. Alternatively, you can send an email to vulnwatch@fortinet.com or ips@fortinet.com to ask.
HoMing
I forgot to address the document. For the vulnerabilities in the doc, here are the signatures:
CVE-2015-6585: Hangul.Word.Processor.ParaText.Type.Confusion
CVE-2015-8651: Adobe.Flash.Loading.Data.Integer.Overflow
CVE-2016-0034: MS.Silverlight.Text.Decoder.Memory.Corruption
CVE-2016-1019: Adobe.Flash.LocalConnection.Object.Handling.Type.Confusion
CVE-2016-4117: Adobe.Flash.Placement.object.Handling.Code.Execution
HoMing
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