[Bro-Dev] [JIRA] (BIT-1238) High false-positive for application/x-tar signature

Brian O'Berry (JIRA) jira at bro-tracker.atlassian.net
Tue Jan 20 09:58:01 PST 2015


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Brian O'Berry commented on BIT-1238:
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We'd love to contribute a test suite, if you're interested.  Would you care to discuss your ideas and/or Bro requirements?   We already have a process that we're using to compare file type identification between the Bro 2.2 magic db and the signatures from master (but running on 2.3.1).

> High false-positive for application/x-tar signature
> ---------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: BIT-1238
>                 URL: https://bro-tracker.atlassian.net/browse/BIT-1238
>             Project: Bro Issue Tracker
>          Issue Type: Problem
>          Components: Bro
>    Affects Versions: 2.3
>            Reporter: Brian O'Berry
>            Assignee: Seth Hall
>              Labels: file, mime, signature
>             Fix For: git/master, 2.4
>
>         Attachments: test.tar.gz
>
>
> The following signature in base/frameworks/files/magic/general.sig frequently triggers on text files in our environment, and includes a strength value higher than GNU and POSIX tar signatures in libmagic.sig.
> {code}
> signature file-tar {
>     file-magic /([[:print:]\x00]){100}(([[:digit:]\x00\x20]){8}){3}/
>     file-mime "application/x-tar", 150
> }
> {code}



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