firnsy/barnyard2 — Issue #22: new beta dies: Failed a call to snort_escape_string_STATIC() for string 
Author: rful011
Created: 2012-02-08 16:22:12+00:00
State: open

binf-barnyard2-0974b1d

I an on RHE 5.5.

I compile BY2 on one box and then copied the binary to my sensor (also on 5.5) - I have done this for testing before with out problems. This time however the new by2 dies:

Feb 8 13:11:48 mon263549 barnyard2: Initializing daemon mode
Feb 8 13:11:48 mon263549 barnyard2: Daemon initialized, signaled parent pid: 24114
Feb 8 13:11:48 mon263549 barnyard2: PID path stat checked out ok, PID path set to /home/sensors/run/
Feb 8 13:11:48 mon263549 barnyard2: Daemon parent exiting
Feb 8 13:11:48 mon263549 barnyard2: Writing PID "24115" to file "/home/sensors/run//barnyard2_dmzo.pid"
Feb 8 13:11:48 mon263549 barnyard2: database: Table [data] had a more rescent cid [257705460] using it.
Feb 8 13:11:48 mon263549 barnyard2:	Recovering by rolling forward the cid from [257247746] to [257705460]
Feb 8 13:11:48 mon263549 barnyard2: database: Table [event] had a more rescent cid [257705462] using it.
Feb 8 13:11:48 mon263549 barnyard2:	Recovering by rolling forward the cid from [257705460] to [257705462]
Feb 8 13:12:02 mon263549 barnyard2: FATAL ERROR: ERROR database: [ReferencePopulateDatabase()], Failed a call to snort_escape_string_STATIC() for string : [www.microsoft.com/security/portal/Threat/Encyclopedia/Entry.aspx?Name=Trojan%3AWin32%2FDogrobot.A], Exiting.

I'm guessing it is a library issue -- is there something else I should be copying?

Cheers, Russell