Install snort-common by entering the following commands in the terminal:
sudo apt update sudo apt install snort-common
Description:
flexible Network Intrusion Detection System - common files
Snort is a libpcap-based packet sniffer/logger which can be used as a lightweight network intrusion detection system. It features rules-based logging and can perform content searching/matching in addition to detecting a variety of other attacks and probes, such as buffer overflows, stealth port scans, CGI attacks, SMB probes, and much more. Snort has a real-time alerting capability, with alerts being sent to syslog, a separate "alert" file, or even to a Windows computer via Samba. . This is a common package which holds cron jobs, tools, and config files used by all the different package flavors.
Homepage: http://www.snort.org/
Version: 2.9.7.0-5build1
Section: universe/net