[Bro-Dev] [JIRA] (BIT-348) Reassembler integer overflow issues. Data not delivered after 2GB
Robin Sommer (JIRA)
jira at bro-tracker.atlassian.net
Thu Apr 24 18:17:07 PDT 2014
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Robin Sommer commented on BIT-348:
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Is there a reason for keeping the seq_delta() function at all now? If we just replaced all calls with "a-b", that would help readability I think.
> Reassembler integer overflow issues. Data not delivered after 2GB
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>
> Key: BIT-348
> URL: https://bro-tracker.atlassian.net/browse/BIT-348
> Project: Bro Issue Tracker
> Issue Type: Problem
> Components: Bro
> Affects Versions: git/master
> Reporter: gregor
> Assignee: Robin Sommer
> Priority: High
> Labels: inttypes
> Fix For: 2.3
>
>
> {noformat}
> #!rst
> The TCP Reassembler does not deliver any data to analyzers after the first 2GB due to signed integer overflow (Actually it will deliver again between 4--6GB, etc.) This happens silently, i.e., without content_gap events or Undelivered calls.
> This report superseded BIT-315, BIT-137
> The TCP Reassembler (and Reassem) base class use ``int`` to keep track of sequence numbers and ``seq_delta`` to check for differences. If a connection exceeds 2GB, the relative sequence numbers (int) used by the Reassembler become negative. While many parts of the Reassembler still work (because seq_delta still reports the correct difference) some parts do not. In particular ``seq_to_skip`` is broken (and fails silently). There might well be other parts of the Reassembler that fail
> silently as well, that I haven't found yet.
> See Comments in TCP_Reassembler.cc for more details.
> The Reassembler should use int64. However this will require deep changes to the Reassembler and the TCP Analyzer and TCP_Endpoint classes (since we also store sequence numbers there). Also, the analyzer framework will need tweaks as well (e.g., Undelivered uses ``int`` for sequence numbers, also has to go to 64 bit)
> As a hotfix that seems to work I disabled the ``seq_to_skip`` features. It wasn't used by any analyzer or policy script (Note, that seq_to_skip is different from skip_deliveries). Hotfix is in
> topic/gregor/reassembler-hotfix
> {noformat}
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