Reading a pcap from /dev/stdin or a named pipe currently fails with "failed to get first packet timestamp. pcap_next_ex(): -1" because InitPcapFile calls setvbuf on the FILE* underlying the pcap handle after libpcap has already consumed the pcap header. On a non-seekable fd glibc cannot recover from that and the next read returns -1.
Detect non-regular files via fstat and skip setvbuf in that case so the read keeps working on pipes, fifos and stdin.
Accept pcap-file.buffer-size values of 0, which disables setvbuf buffering as an explicit opt-out, or PCAP_FILE_BUFFER_SIZE_MIN (4 KiB) to PCAP_FILE_BUFFER_SIZE_MAX (64 MiB). Treat any non-zero setvbuf return value as an error, not just negative values.
When pcap-file.buffer-size fails to parse, retain the default buffer size instead of falling through and setting it to 0. The branches are now mutually exclusive so only one of the parse-error, accepted, or out-of-range messages is logged.
Update the user guide: --pcap-file-buffer-size now documents valid values of 0 (disables setvbuf buffering) or 4 KiB to 64 MiB, and pcap-file.rst notes that 0 is the opt-out for non-seekable sources such as stdin and named pipes.
Bug: #8464.
toggle command is not used by any major rulesets and increases the state
complexity of flowbits management. Also, all operations can be carried
out with the combination of other available commands. So, remove it.
Task 8595
Document that DHCP options carried in the overloaded BOOTP sname or
file fields are now merged into the EVE log option set alongside the
main options area.
Bug: #8538.
Ticket: 8518
Keywords that work for HTTP2 headers match now as soon as possible
A push promise is now considered like a headers frame with regards
to the progress (no dedicated "reserved" progress/state)
http.protocol and http.stat_msg keywords are now registered at
earliest progress, since these are synthetic like "HTTP/2" and
not really seen on the wire.
http.request_line and http.response_line match only on data,
and not on headers, since we must wait the end of headers
to be sure to have the full line
http2.size_update now matches at headers progress as it should
http2.frametype, http2.errorcode, http2.priority now match like
http2.window, when the tx is complete from both sides, as a
half-closed client may still send priority, rst_stream
or window_update frames
When an alert is generated from firewall context, add an engine value of
"fw", otherwise "td" (for threat detect).
The engine field is only added when firewall mode is enabled.
Ticket: #8456
Ticket: 7929
Builds a vector of the reason code in a tx to do so,
except if we use the default "any", where we do not append
to the vector, but just run detection while iterating
Store the NTP reference ID as raw network-order bytes so it can be
exposed as a sticky buffer and matched with payload keywords. The
reference ID is often a 4 character string, or an IP address and not
just an integer identifier.
Updates the log reference ID to be a string of colon separated hex
digits as this matches what tshark does.
Ticket: #8488
Wrap the EVE callback handler with a Rust friendly variant that allows
the user to register a callback as a closure which is provided an
already wrapped JsonBuilder object.
Ticket: #8477
Add --plugin <PATH> to load an additional plugin from the command
line. This is more convenient than "--set plugins.X" especially when
you may already have a plugins loaded and you want to load an
additional one.
Ticket: 8463