[Bro-Dev] [JIRA] (BIT-1255) TCP reassembly issue

[Jon Siwek (JIRA)]

    [ https://bro-tracker.atlassian.net/browse/BIT-1255?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=18112#comment-18112 ] 

Jon Siwek commented on BIT-1255:
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Based on very little understanding of how Bro's tcp reassembly works... instead of giving up, would it be preferable to signal a gap and carry on processing the rest of the connection?
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Good question, not entirely sure the original motivation for that failure mode.  I think in the absence of ACKs and while still trying to impose limits on the size of the reassembly buffer, it may become rather arbitrary which segments get delivered and which get missed, so maybe giving up processing the rest is to avoid a messy/noisy analysis.

> TCP reassembly issue
> --------------------
>
>                 Key: BIT-1255
>                 URL: https://bro-tracker.atlassian.net/browse/BIT-1255
>             Project: Bro Issue Tracker
>          Issue Type: Problem
>          Components: Bro
>    Affects Versions: git/master, 2.3
>         Environment: CentOS 6
>            Reporter: Jimmy Jones
>         Attachments: out.pcap
>
>
> Been testing bro with some messy (but valid) TCP streams, using docker and netem (happy to upload a gist if people are interested).
> The attached file reassembles correctly in wireshark, but bro only gives the first 4069 bytes when extracted with the file analysis framework, and obviously the wrong hash (md5 is the URI).



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