Re: Fwd: Snort3: bug with "-z" when it only in config

I think I meant  snort = { ["-z"]=0 } (instead of =true)  if system has
many(8 in my cases CPUSs), or just  snort = { ["-z"]=8 .}.


пт, 23 нояб. 2018 г. в 13:57, Meridoff <[email protected]>:

>
> Hello,
>
> ср, 21 нояб. 2018 г. в 17:03, Russ via Snort-devel <
> [email protected]>:
>
>> Hi Meridoff,
>>
>> I'm not able to reproduce the exact issue you report but I did find a
>> bug.  What version of Snort++ are you using?  Here is a summary of my
>> findings:
>>
>
> Snort++ 3.0.0-247
>
>
>>
>> 1.  snort["-z"] = true is a misconfiguration and should not be expected
>> to work under any circusmstances.
>>
>
> Sorry, it was my misprint , I mean for example snort["-z"] = 2 (NUMBER )
>
>>
>> 2.  snort = { "-z" = 2 } is invalid Lua.
>>
>> 3.  snort = { }; snort["-z"] = 2 is a valid configuration (number not
>> boolean) and we will fix that bug.
>>
>
> Yes my messages is based under such config.
>
>
>>
>> Below is what I'm seeing with the latest.  Note that I'm using --lua for
>> clarity but the same results hold if you put the command line Lua chunks
>> directly in your snort.lua.
>>
>> Thanks for reporting the issue.
>> Russ
>>
>>
>> $ ./snort -c snort.lua --lua 'snort["-z"] = true'
>> --------------------------------------------------
>> o")~   Snort++ 3.0.0-249
>> --------------------------------------------------
>> Loading snort.lua:
>> FATAL: can't init overrides: [string "require('snort_config');
>> snort["-z"] = true"]:1: attempt to index global 'snort' (a nil value)
>> Fatal Error, Quitting..
>>
>> That makes sense, because the snort table is not defined.  Defining that
>> causes Snort to hang:
>>
>> $ ./snort -c snort.lua --lua 'snort = { }; snort["-z"] = true'
>> --------------------------------------------------
>> o")~   Snort++ 3.0.0-249
>> --------------------------------------------------
>> Loading snort.lua:
>>     ssh
>>     pop
>>     binder
>>     stream_tcp
>>     gtp_inspect
>>     dce_http_proxy
>>     stream_icmp
>>     normalizer
>>     ftp_server
>>     stream_udp
>>     dce_smb
>>     snort
>> ^C
>> o")~  caught int signal, exiting
>>
>> That's the bug I mentioned.  Some command line switches trigger different
>> modes and setting the default for --rule-to-text causes Snort to expect
>> input on stdin.  Patching around that yields the expected error because -z
>> takes a number not a boolean:
>>
>> $ ./snort -c snort.lua --lua 'snort = { }; snort["-z"] = true' | grep
>> ERROR
>> ERROR: invalid snort.-z = 1
>>
>> $ ./snort -? | grep "\-z"
>> -z <count> maximum number of packet threads (same as
>> --max-packet-threads); 0 gets the number of CPU cores reported by the
>> system; default is 1 (0:)
>>
>> Changing to a valid value works as expected:
>>
>> $ ./snort -c snort.lua --lua 'snort = { }; snort["-z"] = 2' | grep success
>> Snort successfully validated the configuration (with 0 warnings).
>>
>> On 11/20/18 11:06 AM, Meridoff via Snort-devel wrote:
>>
>> not only accessing to  uninited but even unallocated array ,created in
>> PHClass constructor
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
>> From: Meridoff <[email protected]>
>> Date: вт, 20 нояб. 2018 г. в 19:03
>> Subject: Snort3: bug with "-z" when it only in config
>> To: <[email protected]>
>>
>>
>> Hello, when option -z (total instances) is given only in config
>> (snort["-z"]=true),
>> then it equals to 1 (default ?) for some of inspectors/plugins/modules,
>> because they inited between parse_cmd_line and parse_config (where -z lies).
>>
>> Due to this bug/feature for many instances we have access to uninted
>> array  p->pp_class.init[slot] in function InspectorManager::thread_init (),
>> when slot > 1 but this array for some inspectors (appid ,telnet ,etc) has
>> length 1 (see PHClass costructor).
>>
>> So we must duplicate "-z" in command line or do not use snort["-z"]=true
>> at all.
>>
>>
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