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Re: Trying to use snort with TALOS-2016-0219
From: Patrick Mullen <pmullen () sourcefire com>
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2016 16:03:14 -0500
Yuri, By "asymmetric," Joel means your pcap is broken. :) Your "works" config modified snort such that it ignores the fact that it can only see half of the traffic. Please note that while this configuration means you did alert in this situation, in the long run it opens you up to evasions and other issues so it's not an ideal solution. I suspect that when you created your pcap, you probably did a filter like "dst host 162.243.66.145 and port 11211", which filtered out return traffic from that host. If you instead used the filter "host 162.243.66.145 and port 11211", the host filter would be bidirectional (the ip could be the dst or src) so you should see the entire set of traffic and snort should alert for you without needing to change the configuration. Thanks, ~Patrick On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 11:17 AM, Joel Esler (jesler) <jesler () cisco com> wrote:
Your traffic is “asymmetric”. This is why turning off stream makes it “work”. Snort needs both sides of the traffic flow in order to process the traffic correctly. *--* *Joel Esler *| *Talos:* Manager | jesler () cisco com On Nov 25, 2016, at 10:41 PM, Yuri Niyazov <yuri () academia edu> wrote: Hi everyone, Snort newbie here. I am trying to detect the latest memcache vulnerabilities, http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0219/ Output of snort -V, as requested in the instructions for posting reports to this list: ,,_ -*> Snort! <*- o" )~ Version 2.9.8.3 GRE (Build 383) '''' By Martin Roesch & The Snort Team: http://www.snort.org/contact#team Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Copyright (C) 1998-2013 Sourcefire, Inc., et al. Using libpcap version 1.5.3 Using PCRE version: 8.31 2012-07-06 Using ZLIB version: 1.2.8 So, I have a packet capture that is the proof-of-concept exploit (code copy-pasted from the vulnerability announcement). That packet capture is attached. It is detected when I run "snort -c etc/works.conf -r /var/log/snort/memcachedump.1480128874", I get the text below in /var/log/snort/alert: [**] [3:40474:2] SERVER-OTHER TRUFFLEHUNTER TALOS-CAN-0219 attack attempt [**] [Classification: Attempted Administrator Privilege Gain] [Priority: 1] 11/26-02:54:44.674785 162.243.66.145:57162 -> 162.243.91.201:11211 TCP TTL:63 TOS:0x0 ID:47627 IpLen:20 DgmLen:1100 DF ***AP*** Seq: 0xF7EF58B0 Ack: 0x1E0819C9 Win: 0x1C9 TcpLen: 32 TCP Options (3) => NOP NOP TS: 3334822 5964160 [Xref => http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0219] However, when I run "snort -c etc/broken.conf -r /var/log/snort/memcachedump.1480128874" the alert doesn't happen The difference between works.conf and broken.conf is that broken.conf includes the stream5_global, stream5_tcp and stream5_udp preprocessors as they are configured in the latest downloadable ruleset (these aren't the files I will end up using, these are just the smallest difference I was able to isolate between "working" and "not working"). Now, if I understand things correctly, the streaming preprocessor provides important functionality that shouldn't just be turned off blindly, so, the question is: what in that preprocessor configuration could be masking the memcached exploit?
-- Patrick Mullen Response Research Manager Cisco TALOS
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- Trying to use snort with TALOS-2016-0219 Yuri Niyazov (Nov 25)
- Re: Trying to use snort with TALOS-2016-0219 Joel Esler (jesler) (Nov 28)
- Re: Trying to use snort with TALOS-2016-0219 Patrick Mullen (Nov 28)
- Re: Trying to use snort with TALOS-2016-0219 Yuri Niyazov (Nov 28)
- Re: Trying to use snort with TALOS-2016-0219 Patrick Mullen (Nov 29)
- Re: Trying to use snort with TALOS-2016-0219 Joel Esler (jesler) (Nov 29)
- Re: Trying to use snort with TALOS-2016-0219 Patrick Mullen (Nov 28)
- Re: Trying to use snort with TALOS-2016-0219 Joel Esler (jesler) (Nov 28)