With this patch the model is:
- "print" cleans the data so that non-printable characters get
escaped. This is not necessarily reversible.
- to print in a reversible way, one can go through
escape_string(); this escapes backslashes as well to make the
decoding non-ambigious.
- Logging always escapes similar to escape_string(), making it
reversible.
Compared to master, we also change the escaping as follows:
- We now only escape with "\xXX", no more "^X" or "\0". Exception:
backslashes.
- We escape backlashes as "\\".
- There's no "alternative" output style anymore, i.e., fmt() '%A'
qualifier is gone.
Baselines in testing/btest are updated, external tests not yet.
Addresses BIT-1333.
- The reassembly behavior can be modified per-file by enabling or
disabling the reassembler and/or modifying the size of the reassembly
buffer.
- Changed the file extraction analyzer to use the stream to avoid
issues with the chunk based approach not immediately triggering
the file_new event due to mime-type detection delay. Early chunks
frequently ended up lost before.
- Generally things are working now and I'd consider this in testing.
- Several places were just using old variable names or not loading
scripts correctly after they'd been renamed/moved.
- Revert/adjust a change in how HTTP file handles are generated that
broke partial content responses.
- Turn some libmagic builtin checks back on; seems some are actually
useful (e.g. text detection seems to be a builtin). The rule going
forward probably will be only to turn off a builtin if we confirm it
causes issues.
- Removed some tests that are redundant or not necessary anymore because
the generic file analysis tests cover them.
- A couple FTP tests still fail that I think need an actual solution via
script changes.
- It's derived from the magic database of libmagic 5.14, but with most
everything not related to mime types removed.
- The custom database is always used by default for mime detection, but
the more verbose file type detection will fall back on the default
libmagic installation's database. The result is: mime type strings
are now guaranteed to be consistent across platforms, but the verbose
file type descriptions are not.
- The custom database gets installed in $prefix/share/bro/magic, and
should even be extensible if files with new patterns are added inside
the directory.
- The search path for the mime magic database can be controlled via
BROMAGIC environment variable.
- Remove mime_desc field from ftp.log.
- Stop using the mime/file type canonifier with unit tests.
- libmagic >= 5.04 is now a requirement.
- FileAnalysis::Info is now just a record used for logging, the fa_file
record type is defined in init-bare.bro as the analogue to a
connection record.
- Starting to transfer policy hook triggers and analyzer results to
events.
- Add a timeout flag to file_analysis.log so it's easy to tell what
has had at least one timeout trigger happen.
- Fix ftp-data service tag not being set for reused connections.
- Fix HTTP::Incorrect_File_Type because mime types returned by FAF have
the charset still in them, but the HTTP::mime_types_extensions table
does not and it requires an exact string match. (still ugly)
- Add TRIGGER_NEW_CONN to track files going over multiple connections.
- Add an initial file/mime type guess for non-linear file transfers.
- Fix a case where file/mime type detection would never be attempted
if the start of the file was a content gap.
- Improve mime type tracking of HTTP byte-range/partial-content,
even if the requests are pipelined or over multiple connections.
- I changed the modbus.events test because having the baseline output
be 80+ MB is nuts and it was sensitive to connection record redefs.
Other misc:
- Remove HTTP::MD5 notice.
- Add "last_active" field to FileAnalysis::Info record.
- Replace "conn_uids", "conn_ids" fields in FileAnalysis::Info record
with just a "conns" fields containing full connection records.
- The http-methods unit test is failing now, but I think it will be
fixed once I change the file handle callback mechanism to use events
instead.
