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Bug #1549

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flow keywords rule parsing

Added by Peter Manev about 9 years ago. Updated over 5 years ago.

Status:
Closed
Priority:
Normal
Target version:
Affected Versions:
Effort:
low
Difficulty:
low
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Description

Using Suricata dev 2.1dev (rev a4bce14).
If there is the following - purposefully wrong signature -

alert http $HOME_NET any -> $EXTERNAL_NET $HTTP_PORTS (msg:"Wrong Msg"; flow: to_server,establishedWrongHere; sid:11111111; rev:1;)

We get the following err:

[10603] 14/9/2015 -- 21:26:54 - (detect.c:412) <Info> (ProcessSigFiles) -- Loading rule file: /etc/suricata/rules/remove_me.rules
[10603] 14/9/2015 -- 21:26:54 - (detect-flow.c:189) <Error> (DetectFlowParse) -- [ERRCODE: SC_ERR_PCRE_GET_SUBSTRING(4)] - pcre_copy_substring failed
[10603] 14/9/2015 -- 21:26:54 - (detect.c:366) <Error> (DetectLoadSigFile) -- [ERRCODE: SC_ERR_INVALID_SIGNATURE(39)] - error parsing signature "alert http $HOME_NET any -> $EXTERNAL_NET
 $HTTP_PORTS (msg:"Wrong Msg"; flow: to_server,establishedWrongHere; sid:11111111; rev:1;)" from file /etc/suricata/rules/remove_me.rules at line 21
[10603] 14/9/2015 -- 21:26:54 - (detect.c:422) <Warning> (ProcessSigFiles) -- [ERRCODE: SC_ERR_NO_RULES(42)] - No rules loaded from /etc/suricata/rules/remove_me.rules
[10603] 14/9/2015 -- 21:26:54 - (detect.c:513) <Warning> (SigLoadSignatures) -- [ERRCODE: SC_ERR_NO_RULES_LOADED(43)] - 1 rule files specified, but no rule was loaded at all!
[10603] 14/9/2015 -- 21:26:54 - (detect.c:2976) <Info> (SigAddressPrepareStage1) -- 0 signatures processed. 0 are IP-only rules, 0 are inspecting packet payload, 0 inspect application la
yer, 0 are decoder event only

There is a valid error but the error msg is not correct - pcre_copy_substring failed - as there is no pcre inside the rule.

Actions #1

Updated by Victor Julien about 9 years ago

The message is technically correct. Prce is used for parsing rules. It's not a very clear message for users though.

Actions #2

Updated by Peter Manev about 9 years ago

Yes - it confused me with the msg being with regards to a pcre expression in the rule itself.

Actions #3

Updated by Andreas Herz about 8 years ago

  • Assignee set to OISF Dev
  • Target version set to TBD
Actions #4

Updated by Victor Julien almost 6 years ago

  • Assignee changed from OISF Dev to Anonymous
  • Effort set to low
  • Difficulty set to low
Actions #5

Updated by Andreas Herz over 5 years ago

  • Assignee set to Community Ticket
Actions #6

Updated by Shivani Bhardwaj over 5 years ago

I think this is sorted then. Should be closed?

Actions #7

Updated by Andreas Herz over 5 years ago

  • Status changed from New to Closed

I agree

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