Re: Possible bug in compiling snort 2.9.2.3

[Russ Combs <rcombs () sourcefire com>]

That's a bug.  Thanks for reporting it.

On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Valentin AVRAM <
valentin.avram () avangate com> wrote:

>  Hello.
>
> While trying to compile snort 2.9.2.3 to be used as a sensor-only, I tried
> to disable all unnecessary features of it while keeping only the basic
> functionalities.
>
> I'm running Gentoo Linux so I'm using the USE-flags made available by the
> distro's ebuild in order to select the features I need and drop those which
> I don't require.
>
> The configure options the ebuild detects from my USE-flags are:
>
>  ./configure --prefix=/usr --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man 
> --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib --enable-shared 
> --disable-static --disable-so-with-static-lib --enable-dynamicplugin --enable-zlib --disable-gre --disable-mpls 
> --disable-targetbased --enable-decoder-preprocessor-rules --disable-ppm --enable-perfprofiling 
> --enable-linux-smp-stats --disable-inline-init-failopen --enable-pthread --disable-debug --disable-debug-msgs 
> --disable-corefiles --enable-dlclose --disable-active-response --disable-normalizer --disable-reload-error-restart 
> --disable-react --disable-flexresp3 --enable-paf --disable-large-pcap --disable-aruba --without-mysql --without-odbc 
> --without-postgresql --enable-ipv6 --enable-reload --disable-prelude --disable-build-dynamic-examples 
> --disable-profile --disable-ppm-test --disable-intel-soft-cpm --disable-static-daq --disable-rzb-saac --without-oracle
>
> As seen, I decided to disable active-response since it is a basic sensor,
> not used in inline mode.
>
> The configure is successful. However, when running make, the compilation
> fails with the following error:
>
> /bin/sh ../libtool --tag=CC   --mode=link i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc  -O2 -march=i686 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer 
> -DSF_VISIBILITY -fvisibility=hidden -fno-strict-aliasing -Wall  -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed -L/usr/lib -lpcre -L/usr/lib 
> -ldnet -o snort debug.o decode.o encode.o active.o log.o mstring.o parser.o profiler.o plugbase.o snort.o  strlcatu.o 
> strlcpyu.o tag.o util.o detect.o signature.o mempool.o sf_sdlist.o fpcreate.o fpdetect.o pcrm.o byte_extract.o 
> sfthreshold.o packet_time.o event_wrapper.o event_queue.o ppm.o log_text.o detection_filter.o detection_util.o 
> rate_filter.o obfuscation.o sfdaq.o idle_processing.o output-plugins/libspo.a detection-plugins/libspd.a 
> dynamic-plugins/libdynamic.a preprocessors/libspp.a parser/libparser.a target-based/libtarget_based.a 
> preprocessors/HttpInspect/libhttp_inspect.a preprocessors/Stream5/libstream5.a sfutil/libsfutil.a 
> control/libsfcontrol.a -lz -ldnet -lpcre -lpcap -lnsl -luuid -lm -lm  -ldl -ldaq -lz -lpthread -lpthread
> libtool: link: i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -O2 -march=i686 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -DSF_VISIBILITY -fvisibility=hidden 
> -fno-strict-aliasing -Wall -Wl,-O1 -o snort debug.o decode.o encode.o active.o log.o mstring.o parser.o profiler.o 
> plugbase.o snort.o strlcatu.o strlcpyu.o tag.o util.o detect.o signature.o mempool.o sf_sdlist.o fpcreate.o 
> fpdetect.o pcrm.o byte_extract.o sfthreshold.o packet_time.o event_wrapper.o event_queue.o ppm.o log_text.o 
> detection_filter.o detection_util.o rate_filter.o obfuscation.o sfdaq.o idle_processing.o  -Wl,--as-needed -L/usr/lib 
> output-plugins/libspo.a detection-plugins/libspd.a dynamic-plugins/libdynamic.a preprocessors/libspp.a 
> parser/libparser.a target-based/libtarget_based.a preprocessors/HttpInspect/libhttp_inspect.a 
> preprocessors/Stream5/libstream5.a sfutil/libsfutil.a control/libsfcontrol.a /usr/lib/libdnet.so -lpcre -lpcap -lnsl 
> -luuid -lm /usr/lib/libdaq.so -ldl -lz -lpthread
> dynamic-plugins/libdynamic.a(sf_dynamic_plugins.o): In function `DynamicSendBlockResponseMsg':
> sf_dynamic_plugins.c:(.text+0x934): undefined reference to `Active_SendData'
> dynamic-plugins/libdynamic.a(sf_dynamic_plugins.o): In function `DynamicActiveSetEnabled':
> sf_dynamic_plugins.c:(.text+0xa17): undefined reference to `Active_SetEnabled'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>
> My question now is the following:
> Am I using a bad combination of flags? Why does dynamic_plugins need active-response which I explicitly disabled? And 
> if the flag combination is wrong, why did the configure let me use it?
> (for instance, the Gentoo ebuild does not allow me to disable the "dynamic_plugins" USE-flag since I have enabled the 
> "zlib" USE-flag which allows for analysis of compressed HTTP connections)
>
> If the combination of flags are right, then it's a bug in the source code.
>
> I have submitted Gentoo bug #421775 ( https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=421775 ) and also attached there a 
> patch which allows the two functions (Active_SetEnabled and Active_SendData) to be visible and just do nothing if 
> active-response is disabled.
>
> However, since it's the first time I'm looking at Snort source code I'm not entirely sure the two Active_ functions 
> should just do nothing, that is I'm not sure that the caller functions expect changes in the data they send to the 
> Active_ functions, so that patch only allows the code to compile, but that may break functionality.
>
> Please have a look at this issue and tell me if I'm using the wrong flag combination, or there is a bug in the code 
> or if the patch should produce a working snort binary.
>
> Thank you for your time.
>
>
>
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