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    Important Snort and Suricata Package Announcement -- probable bug in Legacy Blocking Module

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    • NogBadTheBadN
      NogBadTheBad @Bob.Dig
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      @Bob-Dig You're running In-line mode aren't you ?

      Andy

      1 x Netgate SG-4860 - 3 x Linksys LGS308P - 1 x Aruba InstantOn AP22

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      • Bob.DigB
        Bob.Dig LAYER 8 @NogBadTheBad
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        @NogBadTheBad No, legacy.

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          bmeeks
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          Update -- I was finally able to experience the Signal 11 core dump on my CE 2.7.0-RELEASE testing machine. It took about an hour for the event to trigger. Seemed to happen when it attempted to kill open states.

          I am now building a debug-enabled version of Snort for further testing to see if I can trigger the fault again. Having a debug-enabled version will help track down what's happening. Since the fault happens randomly, this may take a bit to work out.

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            Bob.Dig LAYER 8 @bmeeks
            last edited by Bob.Dig

            @bmeeks Just another Datapoint regarding Suricata. I let it run over two hours on my VPS with pfSense CE RC on WAN. Hundreds of blocks, still no problem.

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              bmeeks @Bob.Dig
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              @Bob-Dig said in Important Snort and Suricata Package Announcement -- probable bug in Legacy Blocking Module:

              @bmeeks Just another Datapoint regarding Suricata. I let it run over two hours on my VPS with pfSense CE RC on WAN. Hundreds of blocks, still no problem.

              Is this with Kill States checked or unchecked on the INTERFACE SETTINGS tab?

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                Bob.Dig LAYER 8 @bmeeks
                last edited by Bob.Dig

                @bmeeks Checked. The only thing of note, I block only for 15 mins, so right now there are "only" 33 blocks and no snort-rules.
                suricata 7.0.2

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                • Cool_CoronaC
                  Cool_Corona @Bob.Dig
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                  @Bob-Dig Run it "infinete" and you will see :)

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                  • Bob.DigB
                    Bob.Dig LAYER 8 @Bob.Dig
                    last edited by Bob.Dig

                    @Bob-Dig said in Important Snort and Suricata Package Announcement -- probable bug in Legacy Blocking Module:

                    I block only for 15 mins, so right now there are "only" 33 blocks and no snort-rules.
                    suricata 7.0.2

                    Run it over night, still no problem, will stop it now.

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                    • fireodoF
                      fireodo @Bob.Dig
                      last edited by

                      @Bob-Dig said in Important Snort and Suricata Package Announcement -- probable bug in Legacy Blocking Module:

                      Run it over night, still no problem, will stop it now.

                      Probably, in your case, the second condition (kill states is the main one) is not occurring (considering Bill Meeks theory) so there is no crash ... 🤔

                      Kettop Mi4300YL CPU: i5-4300Y @ 1.60GHz RAM: 8GB Ethernet Ports: 4
                      SSD: SanDisk pSSD-S2 16GB (ZFS) WiFi: WLE200NX
                      pfsense 2.7.2 CE
                      Packages: Apcupsd Cron Iftop Iperf LCDproc Nmap pfBlockerNG RRD_Summary Shellcmd Snort Speedtest System_Patches.

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                      • Bob.DigB
                        Bob.Dig LAYER 8 @fireodo
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                        @fireodo My theory is, it is a snort problem, not suricata. Let's see.

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                        • fireodoF
                          fireodo @Bob.Dig
                          last edited by

                          @Bob-Dig said in Important Snort and Suricata Package Announcement -- probable bug in Legacy Blocking Module:

                          @fireodo My theory is, it is a snort problem, not suricata. Let's see.

                          👍

                          Kettop Mi4300YL CPU: i5-4300Y @ 1.60GHz RAM: 8GB Ethernet Ports: 4
                          SSD: SanDisk pSSD-S2 16GB (ZFS) WiFi: WLE200NX
                          pfsense 2.7.2 CE
                          Packages: Apcupsd Cron Iftop Iperf LCDproc Nmap pfBlockerNG RRD_Summary Shellcmd Snort Speedtest System_Patches.

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                            slu @bmeeks
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                            @bmeeks

                            don't see such an issue on my two 2.7.0 CE boxes:
                            2.7.0 CE
                            Snort 4.1.6_13
                            Legacy Mode
                            Kill States enabled

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                              Gblenn @fireodo
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                              I have Suricata running in Legacy mode at two different sites, (2.7.0 and 23.09). Both with Kill States enabled and no problems whatsoever...

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                                Bob.Dig LAYER 8 @Gblenn
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                                @slu Do you have actually blocks?

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                                  Gblenn @Bob.Dig
                                  last edited by Gblenn

                                  @Bob-Dig Yes I do, and I have the Remove Blocked Hosts Interval set to 1h but could change it to something higher if that would have an effect?
                                  Up until a few days ago I have had the 23.09 site set up with Block on DROP Only NOT being checked. Meaning I had every single Alert resulting in a Block and basically having built up a Passlist that works for me. As a result I would usually see quite a long list in the Blocks tab. Most of them ET INFO actually, but still blocks.
                                  The 2.7.0 site is also set up this way, but it's for our vacation home so not much going on there at the moment.

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                                    slu @Bob.Dig
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                                    @Bob-Dig
                                    good point, no, not at the moment.

                                    pfSense Gold subscription

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                                      Gblenn @slu
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                                      @slu said in Important Snort and Suricata Package Announcement -- probable bug in Legacy Blocking Module:

                                      @Bob-Dig
                                      good point, no, not at the moment.

                                      😊 Ah, that was a question to you obviously...

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                                        slu @Bob.Dig
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                                        @Bob-Dig said in Important Snort and Suricata Package Announcement -- probable bug in Legacy Blocking Module:

                                        @slu Do you have actually blocks?

                                        You are right, searching in the logs and found it:

                                        Nov 15 06:47:55 	kernel 		pid 44159 (snort), jid 0, uid 0: exited on signal 11 (core dumped)
                                        

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                                          Bob.Dig LAYER 8 @slu
                                          last edited by Bob.Dig

                                          @slu said in Important Snort and Suricata Package Announcement -- probable bug in Legacy Blocking Module:

                                          You are right, searching in the logs and found it:

                                          👍

                                          I didn't searched in the logs. I think, it will disable IPS on that interface and is easy to spot in the GUI? At least I hope.

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                                            johnpitton
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                                            I have a few Netgate 7100 units all running 23.09 with Snort VRT rules in legacy Blocking mode and Kill State enabled with 7 days blocking set.
                                            They've been at this 23.09 ver for almost a week now and stable.
                                            All of them have active blocks listed.
                                            I checked and verified SNORT rulesets have been updating successfully.
                                            I don't see in any of the logs any signal 11 core dumps logged.

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