Strange HTTP results

[Michael Papagiorgio <mrapagiorgio () gmail com>]

Dear snort gurus,

I am trying to see why a rule didn't fire on a snort 2.9.4 system, but it
does on a different system running snort 2.9.2.1.  I am reading from the
same pcap file on each system.  The rule hits on a certain HTTP POST
pattern.  The 2.9.2.1 system correctly identifies and throws an alert.
 2.9.4 doesn't even see any HTTP POSTs in the pcap at all.  I upgraded from
2.9.3.2 to to 2.9.4 to see if I could get it to work, but neither  version
worked.  The rule will never fire if the issue is so low level that snort
sees no POSTs.  I tried using the working 2.9.2.1 snort.conf on the 2.9.4
system, but that didn't work either.

Can someone give me an idea where to look, this is really vexing me.

Output from the runs:

works:


   ,,_     -*> Snort! <*-
  o"  )~   Version 2.9.2.1 IPv6 (Build 107)
   ''''    By Martin Roesch & The Snort Team:
http://www.snort.org/snort/snort-team
           Copyright (C) 1998-2012 Sourcefire, Inc., et al.
           Using libpcap version 1.2.1
           Using PCRE version: 8.21 2011-12-12
           Using ZLIB version: 1.2.3.4

===============================================================================
Packet I/O Totals:
   Received:        18027
   Analyzed:        18027 (100.000%)
    Dropped:            0 (  0.000%)
   Filtered:            0 (  0.000%)
Outstanding:            0 (  0.000%)
   Injected:            0
===============================================================================
Breakdown by protocol (includes rebuilt packets):
        Eth:        21082 (100.000%)
       VLAN:            0 (  0.000%)
        IP4:        21082 (100.000%)
       Frag:            0 (  0.000%)
       ICMP:            0 (  0.000%)
        UDP:            0 (  0.000%)
        TCP:        21082 (100.000%)
        IP6:            0 (  0.000%)
    IP6 Ext:            0 (  0.000%)
   IP6 Opts:            0 (  0.000%)
      Frag6:            0 (  0.000%)
      ICMP6:            0 (  0.000%)
       UDP6:            0 (  0.000%)
       TCP6:            0 (  0.000%)
     Teredo:            0 (  0.000%)
    ICMP-IP:            0 (  0.000%)
      EAPOL:            0 (  0.000%)
       MPLS:            0 (  0.000%)
        ARP:            0 (  0.000%)
        IPX:            0 (  0.000%)
   Eth Loop:            0 (  0.000%)
   Eth Disc:            0 (  0.000%)
   IP4 Disc:            0 (  0.000%)
   IP6 Disc:            0 (  0.000%)
   TCP Disc:            0 (  0.000%)
   UDP Disc:            0 (  0.000%)
  ICMP Disc:            0 (  0.000%)
All Discard:            0 (  0.000%)
      Other:            0 (  0.000%)
Bad Chk Sum:            0 (  0.000%)
    Bad TTL:            0 (  0.000%)
     S5 G 1:            0 (  0.000%)
     S5 G 2:         3055 ( 14.491%)
      Total:        21082
===============================================================================
Action Stats:
     Alerts:         3050 ( 14.467%)
     Logged:         3050 ( 14.467%)
     Passed:            0 (  0.000%)
Limits:
      Match:            0
      Queue:            0
        Log:            0
      Event:            0
      Alert:            0
Verdicts:
      Allow:        18027 (100.000%)
      Block:            0 (  0.000%)
    Replace:            0 (  0.000%)
  Whitelist:            0 (  0.000%)
  Blacklist:            0 (  0.000%)
     Ignore:            0 (  0.000%)
===============================================================================
Frag3 statistics:
        Total Fragments: 0
      Frags Reassembled: 0
               Discards: 0
          Memory Faults: 0
               Timeouts: 0
               Overlaps: 0
              Anomalies: 0
                 Alerts: 0
                  Drops: 0
     FragTrackers Added: 0
    FragTrackers Dumped: 0
FragTrackers Auto Freed: 0
    Frag Nodes Inserted: 0
     Frag Nodes Deleted: 0
===============================================================================
Stream5 statistics:
            Total sessions: 3124
              TCP sessions: 3124
              UDP sessions: 0
             ICMP sessions: 0
               IP sessions: 0
                TCP Prunes: 0
                UDP Prunes: 0
               ICMP Prunes: 0
                 IP Prunes: 0
TCP StreamTrackers Created: 3124
TCP StreamTrackers Deleted: 3124
              TCP Timeouts: 875
              TCP Overlaps: 0
       TCP Segments Queued: 3055
     TCP Segments Released: 3055
       TCP Rebuilt Packets: 3051
         TCP Segments Used: 3051
              TCP Discards: 196
                  TCP Gaps: 215
      UDP Sessions Created: 0
      UDP Sessions Deleted: 0
              UDP Timeouts: 0
              UDP Discards: 0
                    Events: 45
           Internal Events: 0
           TCP Port Filter
                   Dropped: 0
                 Inspected: 0
                   Tracked: 18027
           UDP Port Filter
                   Dropped: 0
                 Inspected: 0
                   Tracked: 0
===============================================================================
HTTP Inspect - encodings (Note: stream-reassembled packets included):
    POST methods:                         3098
    GET methods:                          1
    HTTP Request Headers extracted:       3098
    HTTP Request Cookies extracted:       0
    Post parameters extracted:            0
    HTTP response Headers extracted:      0
    HTTP Response Cookies extracted:      0
    Unicode:                              0
    Double unicode:                       0
    Non-ASCII representable:              0
    Directory traversals:                 0
    Extra slashes ("//"):                 0
    Self-referencing paths ("./"):        0
    HTTP Response Gzip packets extracted: 0
    Gzip Compressed Data Processed:       n/a
    Gzip Decompressed Data Processed:     n/a
    Total packets processed:              6154
===============================================================================
dcerpc2 Preprocessor Statistics
  Total sessions: 0
===============================================================================
===============================================================================
Snort exiting




doesn't work:





   ,,_     -*> Snort! <*-
  o"  )~   Version 2.9.4 (Build 40)
   ''''    By Martin Roesch & The Snort Team:
http://www.snort.org/snort/snort-team
           Copyright (C) 1998-2012 Sourcefire, Inc., et al.
           Using libpcap version 1.2.1
           Using PCRE version: 8.30 2012-02-04
           Using ZLIB version: 1.2.3.4




Packet I/O Totals:
   Received:        18027
   Analyzed:        18027 (100.000%)
    Dropped:            0 (  0.000%)
   Filtered:            0 (  0.000%)
Outstanding:            0 (  0.000%)
   Injected:            0
===============================================================================
Breakdown by protocol (includes rebuilt packets):
        Eth:        21082 (100.000%)
       VLAN:            0 (  0.000%)
        IP4:        21082 (100.000%)
       Frag:            0 (  0.000%)
       ICMP:            0 (  0.000%)
        UDP:            0 (  0.000%)
        TCP:        21082 (100.000%)
        IP6:            0 (  0.000%)
    IP6 Ext:            0 (  0.000%)
   IP6 Opts:            0 (  0.000%)
      Frag6:            0 (  0.000%)
      ICMP6:            0 (  0.000%)
       UDP6:            0 (  0.000%)
       TCP6:            0 (  0.000%)
     Teredo:            0 (  0.000%)
    ICMP-IP:            0 (  0.000%)
      EAPOL:            0 (  0.000%)
       MPLS:            0 (  0.000%)
        ARP:            0 (  0.000%)
        IPX:            0 (  0.000%)
   Eth Loop:            0 (  0.000%)
   Eth Disc:            0 (  0.000%)
   IP4 Disc:            0 (  0.000%)
   IP6 Disc:            0 (  0.000%)
   TCP Disc:            0 (  0.000%)
   UDP Disc:            0 (  0.000%)
  ICMP Disc:            0 (  0.000%)
All Discard:            0 (  0.000%)
      Other:            0 (  0.000%)
Bad Chk Sum:            0 (  0.000%)
    Bad TTL:            0 (  0.000%)
     S5 G 1:            0 (  0.000%)
     S5 G 2:         3055 ( 14.491%)
      Total:        21082
===============================================================================
Action Stats:
     Alerts:            0 (  0.000%)
     Logged:            0 (  0.000%)
     Passed:            0 (  0.000%)
Limits:
      Match:            0
      Queue:            0
        Log:            0
      Event:            0
      Alert:            0
Verdicts:
      Allow:        18027 (100.000%)
      Block:            0 (  0.000%)
    Replace:            0 (  0.000%)
  Whitelist:            0 (  0.000%)
  Blacklist:            0 (  0.000%)
     Ignore:            0 (  0.000%)
===============================================================================
Frag3 statistics:
        Total Fragments: 0
      Frags Reassembled: 0
               Discards: 0
          Memory Faults: 0
               Timeouts: 0
               Overlaps: 0
              Anomalies: 0
                 Alerts: 0
                  Drops: 0
     FragTrackers Added: 0
    FragTrackers Dumped: 0
FragTrackers Auto Freed: 0
    Frag Nodes Inserted: 0
     Frag Nodes Deleted: 0
===============================================================================
Stream5 statistics:
            Total sessions: 3124
              TCP sessions: 3124
              UDP sessions: 0
             ICMP sessions: 0
               IP sessions: 0
                TCP Prunes: 0
                UDP Prunes: 0
               ICMP Prunes: 0
                 IP Prunes: 0
TCP StreamTrackers Created: 3124
TCP StreamTrackers Deleted: 3124
              TCP Timeouts: 875
              TCP Overlaps: 0
       TCP Segments Queued: 3055
     TCP Segments Released: 3055
       TCP Rebuilt Packets: 3051
         TCP Segments Used: 3051
              TCP Discards: 196
                  TCP Gaps: 0
      UDP Sessions Created: 0
      UDP Sessions Deleted: 0
              UDP Timeouts: 0
              UDP Discards: 0
                    Events: 1195
           Internal Events: 0
           TCP Port Filter
                   Dropped: 0
                 Inspected: 0
                   Tracked: 18027
           UDP Port Filter
                   Dropped: 0
                 Inspected: 0
                   Tracked: 0
===============================================================================
HTTP Inspect - encodings (Note: stream-reassembled packets included):
    POST methods:                         0
    GET methods:                          0
    HTTP Request Headers extracted:       0
    HTTP Request Cookies extracted:       0
    Post parameters extracted:            0
    HTTP response Headers extracted:      0
    HTTP Response Cookies extracted:      0
    Unicode:                              0
    Double unicode:                       0
    Non-ASCII representable:              0
    Directory traversals:                 0
    Extra slashes ("//"):                 0
    Self-referencing paths ("./"):        0
    HTTP Response Gzip packets extracted: 0
    Gzip Compressed Data Processed:       n/a
    Gzip Decompressed Data Processed:     n/a
    Total packets processed:              6154
===============================================================================
SMTP Preprocessor Statistics
  Total sessions                                    : 0
  Max concurrent sessions                           : 0
===============================================================================
dcerpc2 Preprocessor Statistics
  Total sessions: 0
===============================================================================
===============================================================================
Snort exiting

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