Re: A weird packet..... perhaps a bug?

[Erek Adams <erek () snort org>]

On Mon, 2 Feb 2003, Frank Knobbe wrote:

> I recently caught the packet below with Snort 1.9 compiled Jan 29 from
> CVS. It lists some weird content. The upper half looks like a valid HTTP
> requests (I verified that that image exists and is indeed called from
> the referring page). The bottom half looks like a snippet from an email,
> which would explain why this packet triggered on port 25.
>
> Has anyone seen a similar mangled packet? Is there a bug in Snort where
> the packet buffer gets overwritten half-way?

[...snip...]

Frank, do you have a pcap of that packet?  If so, try it out against the
2.0 CVS version.  There was a case that was fixed in CVS that would cause
something like this.

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Erek Adams

   "When things get weird, the weird turn pro."   H.S. Thompson


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