Yeah.  I'd like to see this done.  Going to be using snort for ids soon
and it would be nice to map the sigs.

H D Moore wrote:
> 
> On Monday 22 April 2002 06:40 pm, H D Moore wrote:
> > This perl script will create a snort-like "map" of nessus plugins to their
> > appropriate references.
> 
> I know its bad taste to reply to myself, but thought this bit might be useful:
> 
> The snort-msg.map file contains more than just CVE references, it also lists
> bugtraq ids, mcafee ids, reference urls, and a couple other types. This means
> if you can correlate a nessus plugin to a snort signature, you also get a
> list of new references for that plugin. This works both ways, some of the
> snort sigs may be missing info that the plugins have, but they match on the
> CVE id. During the first run, I was able to match up about 400 plugins->sigs
> automatically. Brian only contributed CVE/CAN numbers for those
> vulnerabilities which were rated as high risk, so there are still quite a few
> left to fill in (if not the script_cve_id, then the script_bugtraq_id). It
> would be nice to be able to generate these references from an online web app
> (which was the goal of my previous project), but I never got around to
> finishing it. Is anyone else interested in this project?
> 
> -HD

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