Suricata

Description:¶

Seems to be introduced by the fix of the following issue.
https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/3286

Basically, when the client sends a TCP SYN without timestamps, and the SYN/ACK contains the timestamps, then suricata rejects the SYN/ACK packet.

The intention of the original fix seems to avoid the "faked" RST/ACK or FIN/ACK to be seen by suricata as the end of flow, but also seems to reject legit ACKs from a server that does support tcp timestamps to a client that does not.

Steps to reproduce:¶

1. Have the tcp timestamps turned off (on linux that is sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_timestamps=0)
2. Run the following curl command over suricata in IPS mode to initiate a connection to a Microsoft server.
   

   curl -v 'https://vlscppe.microsoft.com
   

3. Wait for the connection timeout

Log:¶

[2340] 23/9/2021 -- 04:50:14 - (stream-tcp.c:1397) <Debug> (StateSynSentValidateTimestamp) -- ssn 0x7fd2e46240e0: BAD TSECR echo 1 recv 0

Also attached the pcap, not very useful but to see the tcp options of the SYN, and SYN/ACK.

Build info:¶

This is Suricata version 6.0.3 RELEASE
Features: DEBUG UNITTESTS NFQ PCAP_SET_BUFF AF_PACKET HAVE_PACKET_FANOUT LIBCAP_NG LIBNET1.1 HAVE_HTP_URI_NORMALIZE_HOOK PCRE_JIT HAVE_NSS HAVE_LUA HAVE_LUAJIT HAVE_LIBJANSSON TLS TLS_C11 MAGIC RUST 
SIMD support: SSE_4_2 SSE_4_1 SSE_3 
Atomic intrinsics: 1 2 4 8 16 byte(s)
64-bits, Little-endian architecture
GCC version 10.2.1 20210110, C version 201112
compiled with -fstack-protector
compiled with _FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
L1 cache line size (CLS)=64
thread local storage method: _Thread_local
compiled with LibHTP v0.5.38, linked against LibHTP v0.5.38

Suricata Configuration:
  AF_PACKET support:                       yes
  eBPF support:                            yes
  XDP support:                             yes
  PF_RING support:                         no
  NFQueue support:                         yes
  NFLOG support:                           yes
  IPFW support:                            no
  Netmap support:                          no 
  DAG enabled:                             no
  Napatech enabled:                        no
  WinDivert enabled:                       no

  Unix socket enabled:                     yes
  Detection enabled:                       yes

  Libmagic support:                        yes
  libnss support:                          yes
  libnspr support:                         yes
  libjansson support:                      yes
  hiredis support:                         no
  hiredis async with libevent:             no
  Prelude support:                         no
  PCRE jit:                                yes
  LUA support:                             yes, through luajit
  libluajit:                               yes
  GeoIP2 support:                          yes
  Non-bundled htp:                         no
  Hyperscan support:                       yes
  Libnet support:                          yes
  liblz4 support:                          yes
  HTTP2 decompression:                     no

  Rust support:                            yes
  Rust strict mode:                        no
  Rust compiler path:                      /root/.cargo/bin/rustc
  Rust compiler version:                   rustc 1.55.0 (c8dfcfe04 2021-09-06)
  Cargo path:                              /root/.cargo/bin/cargo
  Cargo version:                           cargo 1.55.0 (32da73ab1 2021-08-23)
  Cargo vendor:                            yes

  Python support:                          yes
  Python path:                             /usr/bin/python3
  Python distutils                         yes
  Python yaml                              yes
  Install suricatactl:                     yes
  Install suricatasc:                      yes
  Install suricata-update:                 not bundled

  Profiling enabled:                       no
  Profiling locks enabled:                 no

  Plugin support (experimental):           yes

Development settings:
  Coccinelle / spatch:                     no
  Unit tests enabled:                      yes
  Debug output enabled:                    yes
  Debug validation enabled:                no

Generic build parameters:
  Installation prefix:                     /suricata/install
  Configuration directory:                 /etc/suricata/
  Log directory:                           /var/log/suricata/

  --prefix                                 /suricata/install
  --sysconfdir                             /etc
  --localstatedir                          /var
  --datarootdir                            /suricata/install/share

  Host:                                    x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
  Compiler:                                gcc (exec name) / g++ (real)
  GCC Protect enabled:                     yes
  GCC march native enabled:                no
  GCC Profile enabled:                     no
  Position Independent Executable enabled: no
  CFLAGS                                   -DUNITTESTS -march=sandybridge -std=c11 -I${srcdir}/../rust/gen -I${srcdir}/../rust/dist
  PCAP_CFLAGS                               -I/usr/include
  SECCFLAGS                                -fstack-protector -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wformat -Wformat-security