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Bug #3703

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fileinfo "stored: false" even if the file is kept on disk

Added by Gatewatcher Dev Team over 4 years ago. Updated about 3 years ago.

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Closed
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Normal
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Needs backport to 5.0, Needs backport to 6.0

Description

Hi,

We believe we found a reproducible bug in the file store code.
Basically, what happens is that some streams contain files that are correctly extracted, dumped on disk, marked as closed (not truncated), and moved from tmp/ to the filestore while the fileinfo eve-log indicates that the file was not stored. We have been observing this for a while now, and were recently able to reproduce it in lab, on Suricata 4.1.8 and Suricata 5.0.3.

This is problematic, especially if one is doing automated analysis of the extracted files and not using `write-fileinfo: yes`, because it means that the file might remain "unknown" and never be automatically analyzed.

The suricata config is nothing fancy; we kept the default config from the Ubuntu package, with file-store v2 enabled, and a very basic filemagic rule:

```
alert http any any -> any any (msg: "FILEMAGIC PDF document"; filemagic:"PDF document"; filestore:both,file; noalert; sid:1100008; rev:1;)
```

The bug can be reproduced with the attached pcap file. This is not an isolated case; we were able to reproduce it with several other streams that have similar flow profile. Specifically, after the initial handshake, the file is pushed in its entirety, without any acknowledgment, then all acknowledgment segments are sent and the connection is closed abruptly with a RST. While this way of doing TCP is dirty efficient, it remains valid.

Please reach out to us if you need any more details regarding this issue.

Thank you.

Florian Maury for ArmatureTech DevTeam


Files

pdf_http_467659.pcap (12.3 KB) pdf_http_467659.pcap Gatewatcher Dev Team, 05/18/2020 01:12 PM
reproduction.tgz (35.2 KB) reproduction.tgz Gatewatcher Dev Team, 03/08/2021 11:18 AM

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