Re: PCRE and cross packet matching

[Marcos Rodriguez <marcos.e.rodriguez () gmail com>]

On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Tony Robinson <trobinson () sourcefire com>wrote:

> Just to further explain Patrick's message,
>
> While it isn't explicitly spelled out, Patrick is more or less referring
> to frag3 and stream 5. If you utilize ip defragmentation, and stream
> reassembly, we have an entire TCP stream that the rule can work against. If
> frag3/s5 are not being used to defragment/reassemble packets and TCP
> segments, you will only have individual packets to work with.
>
> A good, general rule of thumb for using PCRE in this instance is to have
> some sort of a content match prior to using PCRE so snort knows where in
> the packet or stream to use the PCRE engine to shred through the data from
> that point onward, so you don't run into the problem of snort giving up on
> a PCRE match.
>
> hope this helps,
>
> -Tony
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 9:53 AM, vpiserchia () gmail com <vpiserchia () gmail com
> > wrote:
>
> > Hello Snort Gurus
> >
> > I have the following question for you:
> >
> > does snort pcre signatures match cross-packets content?
> >
> > I googled a bit and no other answers found about this topic, sry if aI
> > missed any
> >
> > regards
> > vito piserchia
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  Tony Robinson
> Security Consultant I
> SourceFIRE Professional Services Division


Hi Guys,

That's a great write up, and I vote for its inclusion into the Snort manual
under PCRE.

marcos

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