System logs fills up with "table index is nil" errors in Snort 2.9.7.2

trvsecurity · Mar 21, 2015, 3:04 AM

This problem started with the previous version of Snort and forums said that it would be fixed however the pfsense system logs continue to fill up with the following error:

snort[12893]: server /usr/pbi/snort-i386/etc/snort/appid/odp/lua/service_EIP.lua: error validating …i/snort-i386/etc/snort/appid/odp/libs/DetectorCommon.lua:318: table index is nil

Anyone have a fix for this? Any help would be much appreciated!

bmeeks · Mar 21, 2015, 9:50 PM

@trvsecurity:

This problem started with the previous version of Snort and forums said that it would be fixed however the pfsense system logs continue to fill up with the following error:

snort[12893]: server /usr/pbi/snort-i386/etc/snort/appid/odp/lua/service_EIP.lua: error validating …i/snort-i386/etc/snort/appid/odp/libs/DetectorCommon.lua:318: table index is nil

Anyone have a fix for this? Any help would be much appreciated!

See temp fix posted by another user here: https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=89393.msg499494#msg499494