It accepts "originator" or "responder" states as a way to enforce that
the signature only matches packets in the associated direction.
The "established" state is rejected as an error since it doesn't
have a useful meaning like it does for the "tcp-state" condition.
This unfortunately cuases a ton of flow-down changes because a lot of other
code was depending on that definition existing. This has a fairly large chance
to break builds of external plugins, considering how many internal ones it broke.
The Zeek code base has very inconsistent #includes. Many sources
included a few headers, and those headers included other headers, and
in the end, nearly everything is included everywhere, so missing
#includes were never noticed. Another side effect was a lot of header
bloat which slows down the build.
First step to fix it: in each source file, its own header should be
included first to verify that each header's includes are correct, and
none is missing.
After adding the missing #includes, I replaced lots of #includes
inside headers with class forward declarations. In most headers,
object pointers are never referenced, so declaring the function
prototypes with forward-declared classes is just fine.
This patch speeds up the build by 19%, because each compilation unit
gets smaller. Here are the "time" numbers for a fresh build (with a
warm page cache but without ccache):
Before this patch:
3144.94user 161.63system 3:02.87elapsed 1808%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 2168608maxresident)k
760inputs+12008400outputs (1511major+57747204minor)pagefaults 0swaps
After this patch:
2565.17user 141.83system 2:25.46elapsed 1860%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 1489076maxresident)k
72576inputs+9130920outputs (1667major+49400430minor)pagefaults 0swaps
safe_snprintf and safe_vsnprintf just exist to ensure that the resulting strings are always null-terminated. The documentation for snprintf/vsnprintf states that the output of those methods are always null-terminated, thus making the safe versions obsolete.
Notable changes:
- libmagic is no longer used at all. All MIME type detection is
done through new Bro signatures, and there's no longer a means to get
verbose file type descriptions (e.g. "PNG image data, 1435 x 170").
The majority of the default file magic signatures are derived
from the default magic database of libmagic ~5.17.
- File magic signatures consist of two new constructs in the
signature rule parsing grammar: "file-magic" gives a regular
expression to match against, and "file-mime" gives the MIME type
string of content that matches the magic and an optional strength
value for the match.
- Modified signature/rule syntax for identifiers: they can no longer
start with a '-', which made for ambiguous syntax when doing negative
strength values in "file-mime". Also brought syntax for Bro script
identifiers in line with reality (they can't start with numbers or
include '-' at all).
- A new Built-In Function, "file_magic", can be used to get all
file magic matches and their corresponding strength against a given
chunk of data
- The second parameter of the "identify_data" Built-In Function
can no longer be used to get verbose file type descriptions, though it
can still be used to get the strongest matching file magic signature.
- The "file_transferred" event's "descr" parameter no longer
contains verbose file type descriptions.
- The BROMAGIC environment variable no longer changes any behavior
in Bro as magic databases are no longer used/installed.
- Reverted back to minimum requirement of CMake 2.6.3 from 2.8.0
(it's back to being the same requirement as the Bro v2.2 release).
The bump was to accomodate building libmagic as an external project,
which is no longer needed.
Addresses BIT-1143.
- "src-ip" and "dst-ip" conditions can now use IPv6 addresses/subnets.
They must be written in colon-hexadecimal representation and enclosed
in square brackets (e.g. [fe80::1]). Addresses #774.
- "icmp6" is now a valid protocol for use with "ip-proto" and "header"
conditions. This allows signatures to be written that can match
against ICMPv6 payloads. Addresses #880.
- "ip6" is now a valid protocol for use with the "header" condition.
(also the "ip-proto" condition, but it results in a no-op in that
case since signatures apply only to the inner-most IP packet when
packets are tunneled). This allows signatures to match specifically
against IPv6 packets (whereas "ip" only matches against IPv4 packets).
- "ip-proto" conditions can now match against IPv6 packets. Before,
IPv6 packets were just silently ignored which meant DPD based on
signatures did not function for IPv6 -- protocol analyzers would only
get attached to a connection over IPv6 based on the well-known ports
set in the "dpd_config" table.