Re: Feature request: isdataat ability in specific (preprocessor) buffers

[Bad Horse <b4dh0rs3 () gmail com>]

Hi Joe, sorry for the late response.  I appreciate you Sourcefire guys (or
is it Cisco now?) looking at this.

I have to be honest here ... I have been following this list and/or
contributing to the other Snort/I[DP]S mailing lists for many years. It
seems that almost everytime there is a valid bug or feature request, you
respond with a vague reference to, "the next big thing", or "coming soon",
or "exciting new enhancements", etc. that will solve all problems.  These
replies are, for the most part, unpalatable.

I am not in any way disagreeing with what you say or arguing that such
claims do not come true. What I am (more) concerned about is the fact that
the promise of future fixes highly stinks like pedestrian vendors trying to
save face and make a "buck" wherever they can ... I worry that now that
Sourcefire is owned by Cisco, they will become even more vendor-odorous
(not to mention odious in terms of timely open source bug
fixes/enhancements) and lose the flexibility to properly respond to
customer needs.

I am thankful for the FR and hope to see the requested functionality in a
near-future release.

Thanks again.

-Sad Horse
 The Thoroughbred of SYN


On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 11:29 AM, Joel Esler <jesler () sourcefire com> wrote:

> After looking into it with some help from Development, they pointed me
> to a bug where we have that as a feature enhancement already, it's
> contingent upon something much bigger, but we have the FR tracked.
> Thanks.
>
> On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 7:14 AM, Bad Horse <b4dh0rs3 () gmail com> wrote:
> > Sure, the one I didn't see working was http_uri.  I assumed that the
> other
> > buffers for the http_inspect preprocessor didn't work for "isdataat" as
> well
> > and if the "http_*" buffers weren't able to be used for "isdataat", I
> > figured that the other preprocessor buffers weren't recognized too.
>  Tested
> > on Snort 2.9.1 and Snort 2.9.3.
> >
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > -B4d H0rs3
> >  The Thoroughbred of SYN
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 9:54 AM, Joel Esler <jesler () sourcefire com>
> wrote:
> > > Is there a buffer that doesn't work that you've noticed?
> > >
> > > Sent from my iPhone
> > >
> > > On Oct 18, 2013, at 6:42, Bad Horse <b4dh0rs3 () gmail com> wrote:
> > >
> > > This is a feature request to have Snort include the capability to use
> the
> > > 'isdataat' keyword for specific (preprocessor) buffers (e.g. http_uri,
> > > http_header, etc.).
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > -B4d H0rs3
> > >  The Thoroughbred of SYN
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