inliniac/suricata — pull request #1039 by inliniac (2014-07-17 14:37:26+00:00)
Title: stream: detect and filter out bad window updates

Reported in bug 1238 is an issue where stream reassembly can be
disrupted.

A packet that was in-window, but otherwise unexpected set the
window to a really low value, causing the next *expected* packet
to be considered out of window. This lead to missing data in the
stream reassembly.

The packet was unexpected in various ways:
- it would ack unseen traffic
- it's sequence number would not match the expected next_seq
- set a really low window, while not being a proper window update

Detection however, it greatly hampered by the fact that in case of
packet loss, quite similar packets come in. Alerting in this case
is unwanted. Ignoring/skipping packets in this case as well.

The logic used in this patch is as follows. If:

- the packet is not a window update AND
- packet seq > next_seq AND
- packet acq > next_seq (packet acks unseen data) AND
- packet shrinks window more than it's own data size
THEN set event and skip the packet in the stream engine.

So in case of a segment with no data, any window shrinking is rejected.

Bug #1238.