HTTP Preprocessor: support for websockets

[Bram <bram-fabeg () mail wizbit be>]

Hi,


Currently the HTTP Preprocessor fails to detect websockets (see -  
http://www.websocket.org )
This causes snort to produce the alert 'HI_CLIENT_UNKNOWN_METHOD'.

Attached are two dumps, both dumps were created using  
http://www.websocket.org/echo.html but with different versions of  
chrome (with different versions of the websocket protocol)

Config:
        dynamicpreprocessor directory /usr/lib/snort_dynamicpreprocessor/
        preprocessor stream5_global: \
           track_tcp yes, \
           track_udp no, \
           track_icmp no
        preprocessor stream5_tcp: policy first, ports both 80

	preprocessor http_inspect: global iis_unicode_map unicode.map 1252  
compress_depth 65535 decompress_depth 65535
        preprocessor http_inspect_server: server default \
	    http_methods { GET HEAD POST PUT SEARCH MKCOL COPY MOVE LOCK  
UNLOCK NOTIFY POLL BCOPY BDELETE BMOVE LINK UNLINK OPTIONS HEAD DELETE  
TRACE TRACK CONNECT SOURCE SUBSCRIBE UNSUBSCRIBE PROPFIND PROPPATCH  
BPROPFIND BPROPPATCH RPC_CONNECT PROXY_SUCCESS BITS_POST CCM_POST  
SMS_POST RPC_IN_DATA RPC_OUT_DATA RPC_ECHO_DATA } \
            chunk_length 500000 \
            server_flow_depth 0 \
            client_flow_depth 0 \
            post_depth 65495 \
            oversize_dir_length 500 \
            max_header_length 4096 \
            max_headers 100 \
            max_spaces 0 \
            small_chunk_length { 10 5 } \
            ports { 80 } \
            non_rfc_char { 0x00 0x01 0x02 0x03 0x04 0x05 0x06 0x07 } \
            enable_cookie \
            extended_response_inspection \
            inspect_gzip \
            normalize_utf \
            unlimited_decompress \
            normalize_javascript \
            apache_whitespace no \
            ascii no \
            bare_byte no \
            directory no \
            double_decode no \
            iis_backslash no \
            iis_delimiter no \
            iis_unicode no \
            multi_slash no \
            utf_8 no \
            u_encode yes \
            webroot no

	alert ( msg: "HI_CLIENT_UNKNOWN_METHOD"; sid: 31; gid: 119; rev: 1;  
metadata: rule-type preproc ; )

        output alert_fast: stdout

Running it shows:
	$ snort -v -l /var/log -c /etc/ips/snort.conf --daq-dir /lib/daq/ -r  
/tmp/websocket_A.cap 2>&1 | grep '119:'
	08/12-15:57:18.473363  [**] [119:31:1] (http_inspect) UNKNOWN METHOD  
[**] [Priority: 0] {TCP} 10.10.1.1:44486 -> 174.129.224.73:80

	$ snort -v -l /var/log -c /etc/ips/snort.conf --daq-dir /lib/daq/ -r  
/tmp/websocket_B.cap 2>&1 | grep '119:'
	08/16-14:08:07.908889  [**] [119:31:1] (http_inspect) UNKNOWN METHOD  
[**] [Priority: 0] {TCP} 10.10.1.1:56727 -> 174.129.224.73:80


While the 'UNKNOWN METHOD' alert is technically correct it would be  
better if a specific alert was added for the upgrade to websockets.
In addition to that: after the switch to Websockets all further (HTTP)  
alerts should be disabled on the socket (since it's no longer HTTP)


Best regards,

Bram


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