Bug #288: Config "outputs" boolean parsing issue - Suricata - Open Information Security Foundation

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Bug #288

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Config "outputs" boolean parsing issue

Added by James Pleger almost 13 years ago. Updated over 12 years ago.

Status:

Closed

Priority:

Normal

Assignee:

Eileen Donlon

Target version:

1.1beta3

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Description

I have a bug where if a boolean is set in the outputs configuration that isn't yes it sets to false.

This works(in config),
outputs:
- fast: {enabled: yes, filename: fast.log}

but this doesn't:
outputs:
- fast: {enabled: false, filename: fast.log}

I believe part of the problem exists on line 110 of runmodes.c in version 1.0.3

/** * Initialize the output modules.
*/
void RunModeInitializeOutputs(void) {
...
if (enabled != NULL && strcasecmp(enabled, "yes") == 0) {
To reproduce, change all the options in the outputs from "yes" to true.

Error:
[20946] 24/5/2011 -- 19:55:34 - (tm-threads.c:1416) <Error> (TmThreadWaitOnThreadInit) -- [ERRCODE: SC_ERR_THREAD_INIT(49)] - thread "Outputs" closed on initialization.
[20946] 24/5/2011 -- 19:55:34 - (suricata.c:1141) <Error> (main) -- [ERRCODE: SC_ERR_INITIALIZATION(45)] - Engine initialization failed, aborting...

Files

0001-Fix-bug-288-accept-true-in-output-configuration.patch (2.81 KB) 0001-Fix-bug-288-accept-true-in-output-configuration.patch

Jason Ish, 05/27/2011 12:06 AM

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Updated by James Pleger almost 13 years ago

Mean to say that config:
outputs:
- fast: {enabled: true, filename: fast.log}

Wouldn't work.

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Updated by Jason Ish almost 13 years ago

File 0001-Fix-bug-288-accept-true-in-output-configuration.patch 0001-Fix-bug-288-accept-true-in-output-configuration.patch added

This patch should fix the issue. Valid values for truth should be yes, 1, on and true.

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Updated by James Pleger almost 13 years ago

Just tested and this indeed fixes the issue.

Thanks for the quick turn around,
James

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Updated by Victor Julien almost 13 years ago

Due date set to 06/03/2011
Assignee set to Gerado Iglesias Galvan
Target version set to 1.1beta3
% Done changed from 0 to 20
Estimated time set to 3.00 h

Gerardo, can you scan through the code base to see if we have the same problem elsewhere?

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Updated by Victor Julien almost 13 years ago

I applied Jason's patch btw, it's in the current master.

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Updated by James Pleger almost 13 years ago

These are the instances that I found, there may be more...

Line 1158 of util-debug.c:
const char *enabled = ConfNodeLookupChildValue(output, "enabled");
if (enabled != NULL && strcmp(enabled, "no") 0)
continue;

Line 855 in alert-prelude.c:
if (log_packet_content && strcmp(log_packet_content,"yes")0)
ctx->log_packet_content = 1;
if (log_packet_header && strcmp(log_packet_header,"yes")!=0)
ctx->log_packet_header = 0;

Line 395 in stream-tcp.c should probably use the ConfGetBool function instead:
if ((ConfGet("stream.checksum_validation", &csum)) 1) {
if (strcmp(csum, "yes") 0) {
stream_config.flags |= STREAMTCP_INIT_FLAG_CHECKSUM_VALIDATION;
}

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