Feature #1783: Create Suricata buffers to expose L2, L3, and L4 headers to Lua scripts - Suricata - Open Information Security Foundation

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Feature #1783

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Create Suricata buffers to expose L2, L3, and L4 headers to Lua scripts

Added by Nasir Bilal over 8 years ago. Updated over 5 years ago.

Status:

New

Priority:

Normal

Assignee:

Community Ticket

Target version:

TBD

Effort:

medium

Difficulty:

medium

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Description

Currently, the entire packet data is available as an encoded binary of some kind via the "packet" buffer:
https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/projects/suricata/wiki/Lua_scripting

We'd like to see additional buffers created for the ethernet/L2, IP/L3, and TCP/UDP/L4 headers, maybe something like:
eth.type
eth.src_mac
eth.dst_mac
eth.flags
ip.ver
ip.src
ip.dst
udp.sport
udp.dport
tcp.flags
tcp.seq_num
tcp.ack_num
tcp.win_size
tcp.sport
tcp.dport

OR perhaps it would be more simpler to save buffers as large strings, similar to "payload":
packet.l2_header
packet.l3_header
packet.l4_header