topic Re: IPS event - Syslog over non standard ports in General Topics

IPS event - Syslog over non standard ports

Dave — Fri, 11 Jun 2021 13:44:20 GMT

We have many of these events, and which i would want to get rid of.

Of course i can add an exception in IPS for this, but i would like to know if i can solve it first.

Also, how is this possible?

So our devices do send syslog over UDP 514, still the IPS events are triggered.

Re: IPS event - Syslog over non standard ports

Timothy_Hall — Fri, 11 Jun 2021 15:22:42 GMT

UDP/514 is the correct destination port for syslog traffic, but if I recall correctly the source port is supposed to be 514 as well and it is 57460 in your case which is causing the traffic be flagged by IPS. Changing the source port to 514 on the sending system should resolve this.

If that is not feasible, there doesn't seem to be a way to add acceptable custom source ports to IPS for that syslog signature that I can see, so your best course of action here is probably an exception against this specific IPS signature for the sending server.

Re: IPS event - Syslog over non standard ports

Dave — Mon, 14 Jun 2021 13:33:00 GMT

Hi Timothy,

I was under the impression that only the destination port had to match.

Thanks for your insight and info.