From 44b8be3732b44f0d6d6ed807add7d78a556102c2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Victor Julien <victor@inliniac.net>
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 17:59:18 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] protocol detection: midstream handling update

If a TCP session is midstream, we may end up with a case where the
start of an HTTP request is missing. We won't detect HTTP based on
the request. However, the reply is fine, so we detect HTTP anyway.
This leads to passing the incomplete request to the htp parser.

This has been observed, where the http parser then saw many bogus
requests in the incomplete data. This is not limited to HTTP.

To counter this case, a midstream session MUST find it's protocol
in the toserver direction. If not, we assume the start of the
request/toserver is incomplete and no reliable detection and parsing
is possible. So we give up.
---
 src/app-layer.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/app-layer.c b/src/app-layer.c
index 1d699178ea..ae4a5cbb78 100644
--- a/src/app-layer.c
+++ b/src/app-layer.c
@@ -289,6 +289,32 @@ int AppLayerHandleTCPData(ThreadVars *tv, TcpReassemblyThreadCtx *ra_ctx,
             PACKET_PROFILING_APP_END(app_tctx, *alproto);
             f->data_al_so_far[dir] = 0;
         } else {
+            /* if the ssn is midstream, we may end up with a case where the
+             * start of an HTTP request is missing. We won't detect HTTP based
+             * on the request. However, the reply is fine, so we detect
+             * HTTP anyway. This leads to passing the incomplete request to
+             * the htp parser.
+             *
+             * This has been observed, where the http parser then saw many
+             * bogus requests in the incomplete data.
+             *
+             * To counter this case, a midstream session MUST find it's
+             * protocol in the toserver direction. If not, we assume the
+             * start of the request/toserver is incomplete and no reliable
+             * detection and parsing is possible. So we give up.
+             */
+            if ((ssn->flags & STREAMTCP_FLAG_MIDSTREAM) && !(ssn->flags & STREAMTCP_FLAG_MIDSTREAM_SYNACK)) {
+                if (FLOW_IS_PM_DONE(f, STREAM_TOSERVER) && FLOW_IS_PP_DONE(f, STREAM_TOSERVER)) {
+                    SCLogDebug("midstream end pd %p", ssn);
+                    /* midstream and toserver detection failed: give up */
+                    FlowSetSessionNoApplayerInspectionFlag(f);
+                    StreamTcpSetStreamFlagAppProtoDetectionCompleted(&ssn->server);
+                    StreamTcpSetStreamFlagAppProtoDetectionCompleted(&ssn->client);
+                    ssn->data_first_seen_dir = APP_LAYER_DATA_ALREADY_SENT_TO_APP_LAYER;
+                    goto end;
+                }
+            }
+
             if (*alproto_otherdir != ALPROTO_UNKNOWN) {
                 first_data_dir = AppLayerParserGetFirstDataDir(f->proto, *alproto_otherdir);