Internals
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Suricata's stream engine returns data for inspection to the detection
engine from the stream when the chunk size is reached.
Bug
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Inspection triggered only in the specified chunk sizes may be too late
when it comes to inspection of smaller protocol specific data which
could result in delayed inspection, incorrect data logged with a transaction
and logs misindicating the pkt that triggered an alert.
Fix
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Fix this by making an explicit call from all respective applayer parsers to
trigger raw stream inspection which shall make the data available for inspection
in the following call of the stream engine. This needs to happen per direction
on the completion of an entity like a request or a response.
Important notes
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1. The above mentioned behavior with and without this patch is
affected internally by the following conditions.
- inspection depth
- stream depth
In these special cases, the inspection window will be affected and
Suricata may not consider all the data that could be expected to be
inspected.
2. This only applies to applayer protocols running over TCP.
3. The inspection window is only considered up to the ACK'd data.
4. This entire issue is about IDS mode only.
NFS has a classic request response model where each request is mapped to
a corresponding response. Additionally, there's also file tracking and
handling done as a part of these transactions. Appropriate calls to
trigger raw stream inspection have been added on completion of each
request and response.
Task 7026
Bug 7004
Update APIs to store files in transactions instead of the per flow state.
Goal is to avoid the overhead of matching up files and transactions in
cases where there are many of both.
Update all protocol implementations to support this.
Update file logging logic to account for having files in transactions. Instead
of it acting separately on file containers, it is now tied into the
transaction logging.
Update the filestore keyword to consider a match if filestore output not
enabled.
After a file has been closed (CLOSE, COMMIT command or EOF/SYNC part of
READ/WRITE data block) mark it as such so that new file commands on that
file do not reuse the transaction.
When a file transfer is completed it will be flagged as such and not be
found anymore by the NFSState::get_file_tx_by_handle() method. This forces
a new transaction to be created.
Before, even if there were no outputs, all the arguments
were evaluated, which could turn expensive
All variables which are used only in certain build configurations
are now prefixed by underscore to avoid warnings
Add TX creation for NFS4 transactions. Start with the 'REMOVE' procedure.
Start on logging all procs. In NFS4 COMPOUND records there are multiple
procedures. One of them can be considered the 'main' procedure, with others
as supporting utility. This patch adds the first step in supporting to
track those in the TX for logging and inspection.