[Bro] Suppress_for issues

sangdrax8 sangdrax8 at gmail.com
Fri Jun 6 06:03:27 PDT 2014


I was just trying to move back from the heartbleed branch in git to the
current "stable."  Should I be checking out something other than master to
make the move back from the heartbleed branch to stable branch?


On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 8:54 AM, Josh Liburdi <liburdi.joshua at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Looks to me like the $identifer field was dropped from those notices
> with the move to 2.3 ...
>
> Bro 2.2:
>
> else if ( cert$not_valid_after < network_time() )
> NOTICE([$note=Certificate_Expired,
>        $conn=c, $suppress_for=1day,
>        $msg=fmt("Certificate %s expired at %T", cert$subject,
> cert$not_valid_after),
>        $identifier=cat(c$id$resp_h, c$id$resp_p, c$ssl$cert_hash)]);
>
>
> Bro 2.3:
>
> else if ( cert$not_valid_after < network_time() )
> NOTICE([$note=Certificate_Expired,
>        $conn=c, $suppress_for=1day,
>        $msg=fmt("Certificate %s expired at %T", cert$subject,
> cert$not_valid_after),
>        $fuid=fuid]);
>
>
> That will break suppression.
>
> -Josh
>
> On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 8:35 AM, sangdrax8 <sangdrax8 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I am having some problems (or maybe misunderstanding) of how the
> suppression
> > works. I haven't changed my configuration file and it was working at one
> > time.  Now after upgrading to the master branch (I was on the
> heartbleed) it
> > seems my suppression isn't working as I understand it.
> >
> > I have activated the SSL certificate checking as follows:
> > @load policy/protocols/ssl/expiring-certs.bro
> > redef SSL::notify_certs_expiration = ALL_HOSTS;
> >
> > now when I watch my notice log, I am seeing what appear to be LOTS of
> notice
> > logs for the same certificate.  I thought that perhaps just the e-mails
> get
> > suppressed, but after turning on e-mail notifications I get an e-mail for
> > every notice.  Plus my notice log is filling up rather quickly.
> >
> > I know this probably won't be very legible, but here is an example of
> just 2
> > of the notices I get from a single connection.  They look exactly the
> same
> > to me, and they have a time set for the suppression. I  would have
> expected
> > to only get one of these, but you can see the time stamp shows multiple
> > notices happening very quickly.
> >
> > #fields ts      uid     id.orig_h       id.orig_p       id.resp_h
> > id.resp_p       fuid    file_mime_type  file_desc       proto   note
>  msg
> > sub     src     dst     p       n       peer_descr      actions
> suppress_for
> > dropped remote_location.country_code    remote_location.region
> > remote_location.city    remote_location.latitude
> > remote_location.longitude
> >
> >
> > 1402057564.658489       CW6Riz4smTIRpMxWq1      1.1.1.1   51255   2.2.2.2
> > 5223    F6irMUcwkf1ZcbIok       -       -       tcp
> > SSL::Certificate_Expired        Certificate emailAddress=,CN=,OU=,O= -
> > 1.1.1.1   2.2.2.2  5223    -       bro1      Notice::ACTION_LOG
> > 86400.000000    F       -       -       -       -       -
> >
> > 1402057564.660035       CW6Riz4smTIRpMxWq1      1.1.1.1   51255   2.2.2.2
> > 5223    F6irMUcwkf1ZcbIok       -       -       tcp
> > SSL::Certificate_Expired        Certificate emailAddress=,CN=,OU=,O= -
> > 1.1.1.1   2.2.2.2  5223    -       bro1      Notice::ACTION_LOG
> > 86400.000000    F       -       -       -       -       -
> >
> >
> >
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