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This document summarizes the most important changes in the current Zeek
release. For an exhaustive list of changes, see the ``CHANGES`` file
(note that submodules, such as Broker, come with their own ``CHANGES``.)
Zeek 3.0.0
==========
New Functionality
-----------------
- Added support for DNSSEC resource records RRSIG, DNSKEY, DS, NSEC, and NSEC3.
The associated events are:
- dns_RRSIG
- dns_DNSKEY
- dns_DS
- dns_NSEC
- dns_NSEC3
- Added support for parsing and logging DNS SPF resource records.
A new ``dns_SPF_reply`` event is also available.
- Zeek's Plugin framework now allows a patch version. If a patch version is not
provided, it will default to 0. To specify this, modify the plugin
Configuration class in your ``src/Plugin.cc`` and set
``config.version.patch``. Note that the default plugin skeleton
includes a unit test whose Baseline has the plugin version number in
it and that will now fail due to the version number now including a
patch number. For those that want to keep the unit test, simply adapt
the unit test/baseline to include the new plugin patch number.
- The default http.log not includes a field for the HTTP request Origin header.
- Support for decapsulating VXLAN tunnels.
- The for-loop syntax now allows for iterating over key-value pairs of tables.
Previously, a separate lookup within the loop was required to obtain the
value at a given index/key, but now this works::
local t: table[count] of string = table();
t[1] = "hello";
t[55] = "goodbye";
for ( key, value in t )
print key, value;
- Added options for controlling the source path/prefix for Input and
Intel framework files:
- InputAscii::path_prefix
- InputBinary::path_prefix
- Intel::path_prefix
- Support for NFLOG link-layer type.
- Support for some SMB 3.x features
- An ``smb2_transform_header`` event is raised after parsing
TRANSFORM_HEADER structures associated with encrypted messages.
- The ``SMB2::NegotiateResponse`` record now contains
``negotiate_context_count`` and ``negotiate_context_values`` fields
containing capability information found in an SMB 3.1.1 dialect's
negotiation message.
- Added a new hook, ``Intel::filter_item``, to assist in filtering and
removal of intelligence items that are about to be inserted.
- Add support for SMB filenames in the intel framework.
- Added a new event for weirdness found via file analysis: ``file_weird``.
- The conn.log "history" field supports a new character 'G' or 'g'
(capital for originator, lowercase responder) to indicate a content
gap in the TCP stream. These are recorded logarithmically.
- The ``ZEEK_DNS_RESOLVER`` environment variable now controls
the DNS resolver to use by setting it to an IPv4 or IPv6 address. If
not set, then the first IPv4 address from /etc/resolv.conf gets used.
- The ``/<re>/i`` convenience syntax for case-insensitive patterns is now
also allowed when specifying patterns used in signature files.
- New RDP functionality.
- New events:
- rdp_client_network_data
- rdp_client_security_data
- rdp_client_cluster_data
- rdp_native_encrypted_data
- Add a new "client_channels" field to rdp.log based on data parsed from
the Client Network Data (TS_UD_CS_NET) packet. The channel list is also
available in the new ``rdp_client_network_data`` event.
- Add parsing support for TLS 1.3 pre-shared key extension. This info
is available in the events: ``ssl_extension_pre_shared_key_client_hello``
and ``ssl_extension_pre_shared_key_server_hello``.
- Added/re-wrote support for NTP.
- Parsing support for modes 1-7, with parsed structures available in
the ``ntp_message`` event.
- An ntp.log is produced by default, containing data extracted from
NTP messages with modes 1-5.
- Add support for vector slicing operations. For example::
local v = vector(1, 2, 3, 4, 5);
v[2:4] = vector(6, 7, 8); # v is now [1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 5]
print v[:4]; # prints [1, 2, 6, 7]
- Add support for paraglob, a fairly quick data structure for matching a string
against a large list of patterns. For example::
local v1 = vector("*", "d?g", "*og", "d?", "d[!wl]g");
local p1 = paraglob_init(v1);
print paraglob_match(p1, "dog");
Changed Functionality
---------------------
- The following executable names have changed (the old names will
continue to work, but emit a deprecation warning):
- ``bro`` is now ``zeek``
- ``bro-config`` is now ``zeek-config``
- ``broctl`` is now ``zeekctl``
- ``bro-cut`` is now ``zeek-cut``
- BroControl has been completely renamed to ZeekControl. Many installation
directories and files with "broctl" in their name have been changed
to use "zeekctl" instead. It's expected this has been done in a way
that's backwards compatible with previous Bro installations. E.g.
if you made customizations to the ``broctl.cfg`` file of a previous
installation, installing the newer Zeek version over it will retain that
file and even symlink the new ``zeekctl.cfg`` to it.
- The default install prefix is now ``/usr/local/zeek`` instead of
``/usr/local/bro``. If you have an existing installation that used
the previous default and are still using the new default when upgrading,
we'll crate ``/usr/local/zeek`` as a symlink to ``/usr/local/bro``.
Certain subdirectories will also get similar treatment: ``share/bro``,
``include/bro``, and ``lib/bro``.
- ``$prefix/share/bro/site/local.bro`` has been renamed to
``local.zeek``. If you have a ``local.bro`` file from a previous
installation, possibly with customizations made to it, the new
version of Zeek will install a ``local.zeek`` file that is a symlink
to the pre-existing ``local.bro``. In that case, you may want to
just copy ``local.bro`` into the new ``local.zeek`` location to
avoid confusion, but things are otherwise meant to work properly
without intervention.
- All scripts ending in ``.bro`` that ship with the Zeek source tree have
been renamed to ``.zeek``.
- The search logic for the ``@load`` script directive now prefers files
ending in ``.zeek``, but will fallback to loading a ``.bro`` file if
it exists. E.g. ``@load foo`` will first check for a ``foo.zeek``
file to load and then otherwise ``foo.bro``. Note that
``@load foo.bro`` (with the explicit ``.bro`` file suffix) prefers
in the opposite order: it first checks for ``foo.bro`` and then
falls back to a ``foo.zeek``, if it exists.
- The for-loop index variable for vectors has been changed from
'int' to 'count' type. It's unlikely this would alter/break any
script behavior unless they were explicitly inspecting the variable's
type (and there's typically no reason to do that).
- The startup/initialization behavior has changed such that any errors
encountered while processing the ``bro_init()`` event will cause the
process to terminate rather than continue on the main run loop.
- The ``dns_state`` field within ``connection`` records has changed: the
``pending_queries`` and ``pending_replies`` fields are now ``&optional``,
and there is a new field ``pending_query`` that is populated before
``pending_queries``. If you have scripts that access the ``pending_queries``
or ``pending_replies`` fields, they will need to be updated.
This change was made to improve performance.
- The ternary operator ("<expr> ? <alt1> : <alt2>") now enforces that
if "<alt1>" and "<alt2>" are both records, they are of the same
type. It was always assumed that they were, but code might have
still worked even if not.
- The "orig_fuids", "orig_filenames", "orig_mime_types" http.log fields
as well as their "resp" counterparts are now limited to having
"HTTP::max_files_orig" or "HTTP::max_files_resp" entries, which are 15
by default. The limit can also be ignored case-by-case via the
"HTTP::max_files_policy" hook.
- The binpac library is now only compiled as a shared library by default.
To revert back to compiling only a static library, there's the
``--enable-static-binpac`` configure option.
- The Broker C++ API has some breaking changes, see it's own NEWS file for
details on how to migrate old code.
- Some Weirds associated with generic binpac parsing exceptions in analyzers
that didn't otherwise handle them (like syslog, modbus, dnp3) are now
a ProtocolViolation instead
- Weird names that contained variable content and may result in an unbounded
number of weird names have been renamed to remove the variable content
(which has been made available in the "addl" field of conn_weirds):
- "unknown_dce_rpc_auth_type_%d" -> unknown_dce_rpc_auth_type
- "gtp_invalid_info_element_%d" -> gtp_invalid_info_element
- "unknown_netbios_type:" 0x%x -> unknown_netbios_type
- "excess_netbios_hdr_len" (%d > %d) -> excess_netbios_hdr_len
- "deficit_netbios_hdr_len" (%d > %d) -> deficit_netbios_hdr_len
- "bad_RPC_program (%d)" -> bad_RPC_program
- "unknown_MOUNT_request(%u)" -> unknown_MOUNT_request
- "unknown_NFS_request(%u)" -> unknown_NFS_request
- "RPC resync: discard %d bytes\n" -> RPC_resync
- "RPC_message_too_long (%d64)" -> RPC_message_too_long
- "socks5_unsupported_authentication_method_%d" -> socks5_unsupported_authentication_method
- "socks5_unsupported_authentication_%d_%d" -> socks5_unsupported_authentication
- "ssh_unknown_kex_algorithm=%s" -> ssh_unknown_kex_algorithm
- "Encountered unknown type in server name ssl extension: %d" -> ssl_ext_unknown_server_name_type
- "UDP_datagram_length_mismatch(%d!=%d)" -> UDP_datagram_length_mismatch
- "OPENSSL Could not parse OCSP request (fuid %s)" -> openssl_ocsp_request_parse_error
- "OPENSSL Could not parse OCSP response (fuid %s)" -> openssl_ocsp_response_parse_error
- "Could not parse X509 certificate (fuid %s)" -> x509_cert_parse_error
- "Certificate with invalid BasicConstraint. fuid %s" -> x509_invalid_basic_constraint
- "Could not parse subject alternative names. fuid %s" -> x509_san_parse_error
- "DNS-field does not contain an IA5String. fuid %s" -> x509_san_non_string
- "Weird IP address length %d in subject alternative name. fuid %s" -> x509_san_ip_length
- "Could not parse time in X509 certificate (fuid %s) -- UTCTime has wrong length" -> x509_utc_length
- "Could not parse UTC time in non-YY-format in X509 certificate (x509 %s)" -> x509_utc_format
- "Could not parse time in X509 certificate (fuid %s) -- Generalized time has wrong length" -> x509_gen_time_length
- "Invalid time type in X509 certificate (fuid %s)" -> x509_invalid_time_type
- "Could not parse time in X509 certificate (fuid %s) -- additional char after time" -> x509_time_add_char
- "Could not parse time in X509 certificate (fuid %s) -- not enough bytes remaining for offset" -> x509_time_offset_underflow
- "Could not parse time in X509 certificate (fuid %s) -- unknown offset type" -> x509_time_offset_type
- "X509::GetExtensionFromBIO: %s" -> x509_get_ext_from_bio
- "unknown_mobility_type_%d" -> unknown_mobility_type
- "unknown_routing_type_%d" -> unknown_routing_type
- "unknown_protocol_%d" -> unknown_protocol
- "unknown_gre_version_%d" -> unknown_gre_version
- "unknown_gre_protocol_%u16" -> unknown_gre_protocol
- The "missed_bytes" field of conn.log can be calculated slightly differently
in some cases: ACKs that reveal a content gap, but also come at
the end of a connection (in a FIN or RST) are considered unreliable
and aren't counted as true gaps.
- The Broxygen component, which is used to generate our Doxygen-like
scripting API documentation has been renamed to Zeekygen. This likely has
no breaking or visible changes for most users, except in the case one
used it to generate their own documentation via the ``--broxygen`` flag,
which is now named ``--zeekygen``. Besides that, the various documentation
in scripts has also been updated to replace Sphinx cross-referencing roles
and directives like ":bro:see:" with ":zeek:zee:".
- The catch-and-release and unified2 scripts are no longer loaded by
default. Because there was a performance impact simply from loading
them and it's unlikely a majority of user make use of their features,
they've been moved from the scripts/base/ directory into
scripts/policy/ and must be manually loaded to use their
functionality. The "drop" action for the notice framework is likewise
moved since it was implemented via catch-and-release. As a result,
the default notice.log no longer contains a "dropped" field.
If you previously used the catch-and-release functionality add this:
@load policy/frameworks/netcontrol/catch-and-release
If you previously used Notice::ACTION_DROP add:
@load policy/frameworks/notice/actions/drop
If you previously used the Unified2 file analysis support add:
@load policy/files/unified2
- The default value of ``peer_description`` has changed from "bro"
to "zeek". This won't effect most users, except for the fact that
this value may appear in several log files, so any external plugins
that have written unit tests that compare baselines of such log
files may need to be updated.
- The "remote_ip" field of "addr" type was removed from radius.log and
replaced with a field named "tunnel_client" of "string" type. The
reason for this is that the Tunnel-Client-Endpoint RADIUS attribute
this data is derived from may also be a FQDN, not just an IP address.
- The ``ssl_server_hello`` event's ``server_random`` parameter has been
changed to always include the full 32-byte field from the
ServerHello. Previously a 4-byte timestamp and 28-byte random data
were parsed separately as some TLS protocol versions specified a
separate timestamp field as part of the full 32-byte random sequence.
- The namespace used by all the builtin plugins that ship with Zeek have
changed to use "Zeek::" instead of "Bro::".
- Any Broker topic names used in scripts shipped with Zeek that
previously were prefixed with "bro/" are now prefixed with "zeek/"
instead.
In the case where external applications were using a "bro/" topic
to send data into a Bro process, a Zeek process still subscribes
to those topics in addition to the equivalently named "zeek/" topic.
In the case where external applications were using a "bro/" topic
to subscribe to remote messages or query data stores, there's no
backwards compatibility and external applications must be changed
to use the new "zeek/" topic. The thought is this change will have
low impact since most data published under "bro/" topic names is
intended for use only as a detail of implementing cluster-enabled
versions of various scripts.
A list of the most relevant/common topic names that could potentially
be used in external applications to consume/query remote data that
one may need to change:
- store names
- bro/known/services
- bro/known/hosts
- bro/known/certs
- cluster nodes
- bro/cluster/<node type>
- bro/cluster/node/<name>
- bro/cluster/nodeid/<id>
- logging
- bro/logs/<stream>
- The ``resp_ref`` argument was removed from the ``ocsp_response_bytes``
event. ``resp_ref`` was not used by anything in the codebase and could not be
passed to any other functions for further processing. The remainder of the
``ocsp_response_bytes`` is unchanged.
Removed Functionality
---------------------
- A number of functions that were deprecated in version 2.6 or below and completely
removed from this release. Most of the functions were used for the old communication
code.
- ``find_ip_addresses``
- ``cat_string_array``
- ``cat_string_array_n``
- ``complete_handshake``
- ``connect``
- ``decode_base64_custom``
- ``disconnect``
- ``enable_communication``
- ``encode_base64_custom``
- ``get_event_peer``
- ``get_local_event_peer``
- ``join_string_array``
- ``listen``
- ``merge_pattern``
- ``request_remote_events``
- ``request_remote_logs``
- ``request_remote_sync``
- ``resume_state_updates``
- ``send_capture_filter``
- ``send_current_packet``
- ``send_id``
- ``send_ping``
- ``set_accept_state``
- ``set_compression_level``
- ``sort_string_array``
- ``split1``
- ``split_all``
- ``split``
- ``suspend_state_updates``
- ``terminate_communication``
- ``split``
- ``send_state``
- ``checkpoint_state``
- ``rescan_state``
- ``log_file_name``
- ``open_log_file``
- ``disable_print_hook``
- The following events were deprecated in version 2.6 or below and are completely
removed from this release:
- ``ssl_server_curve``
- ``dhcp_ack``
- ``dhcp_decline``
- ``dhcp_discover``
- ``dhcp_inform``
- ``dhcp_nak``
- ``dhcp_offer``
- ``dhcp_release``
- ``dhcp_request``
- ``remote_state_access_performed``
- ``remote_state_inconsistency``
- ``remote_connection_established``
- ``remote_connection_closed``
- ``remote_connection_handshake_done``
- ``remote_event_registered``
- ``remote_connection_error``
- ``remote_capture_filter``
- ``remote_log_peer``
- ``remote_log``
- ``finished_send_state``
- ``remote_pong``
- ``software_version_found``
- ``software_unparsed_version_found``
- ``software_parse_error``
- ``print_hook``
- ``interconn_stats``
- ``interconn_remove_conn``
- The following types/records were deprecated in version 2.6 or below and are
removed from this release:
- ``peer_id``
- ``event_peer``
- ``packet``
- ``software``
- ``software_version``
- The following configuration options were deprecated in version 2.6 or below and are
removed from this release:
- ``max_remote_events_processed``
- ``forward_remote_events``
- ``forward_remote_state_changes``
- ``enable_syslog``
- ``remote_trace_sync_interval``
- ``remote_trace_sync_peers``
- ``remote_check_sync_consistency``
- ``log_rotate_interval``
- ``log_max_size``
- ``log_encryption_key``
- ``state_dir``
- ``state_write_delay``
- ``ssl_ca_certificate``
- ``ssl_private_key``
- ``ssl_passphrase``
- ``suppress_local_output``
- ``irc_servers``
- ``interconn_min_interarrival``
- ``interconn_max_interarrival``
- ``interconn_max_keystroke_pkt_size``
- ``interconn_default_pkt_size``
- ``interconn_stat_period``
- ``interconn_stat_backoff``
- ``interconn_endp_stats``
- The following constants were used as part of deprecated functionality in version 2.6
or below and are removed from this release:
- ``PEER_ID_NONE``
- ``REMOTE_LOG_INFO``
- ``REMOTE_SRC_CHILD``
- ``REMOTE_SRC_PARENT``
- ``REMOTE_SRC_SCRIPT``
- The deprecated script ``policy/protocols/smb/__load__.bro`` was removed.
Instead of ``@load policy/protocols/smb`` use ``@load base/protocols/smb``.
- Broccoli, which had been deprecated in version 2.6 and was no longer built by default
was removed from the source tree.
- Support for the &persistent, &synchronized, &mergeable, &encrypt, &rotate_interval,
and &rotate_size attributes, which were deprecated in Bro 2.6, was removed. The ``-g``
command-line option (dump-config) which relied on this functionality was also removed.
- Functionality for writing state updates for variables with the
&synchronized attribute was removed. This entails the
``-x`` command-line option (print-state) as well as the
``capture_state_updates`` function.
- Removed the BroControl ``update`` command, which was deprecated in Bro 2.6.
- Functionality for writing/reading binary event streams was
removed. This functionality relied on the old communication code
anc was basically untested. The ``-R`` command-line option (replay)
as well as the ``capture_events`` function were removed.
- Removed p0f (passive OS fingerprinting) support. The version of
p0f shipped with zeek was ancient, probably did not give
any reliable support anymore and did not offer a clear
upgrade path. The ``OS_version_found`` event as well as the
``generate_OS_version_event`` configuration option were removed.
- Removed the ``max_files_in_cache`` option and the associated
"file caching" feature it's associated with. That feature allowed
one to open many scripting-layer ``file`` objects and potentially
bypass the operating system's resource limits for open files.
This is typically not necessary and it's a problem that is more
appropriately addressed at the system configuration level.
- Removed the InterConn analyzer.
Deprecated Functionality
------------------------
- The ``str_shell_escape`` function is now deprecated, use ``safe_shell_quote``
instead. The later will automatically return a value that is enclosed
in double-quotes.
- The ``bro_init``, ``bro_done``, and ``bro_script_loaded`` events are now
deprecated, use ``zeek_init``, ``zeek_done``, and
``zeek_script_loaded`` instead. Any existing event handlers for
the deprecated versions will automatically alias to the new events
such that existing code will not break, but will emit a deprecation
warning.
- The ``bro_is_terminating`` and ``bro_version`` function are deprecated and
replaced by functions named ``zeek_is_terminating`` and ``zeek_version``.
Bro 2.6
=======
New Functionality
-----------------
- Bro has switched to using the new Broker library for all its
communication. Broker's API has been completely redesigned (compared
to the version in 2.5), and much of its implementation has been
redone. There's a new script-level "broker" framework that
supersedes the old "communication" framework, which is now
deprecated. All scripts that ship with Bro have been ported to use
Broker. BroControl has likewise been ported to use Broker.
For more about the new Broker framework, see
https://www.bro.org/sphinx-git/frameworks/broker.html. There's also
a guide there for porting existing Bro scripts to Broker. For more
about Broker itself, including its API for external applications,
see https://bro-broker.readthedocs.io/en/stable
When using BroControl, the function of proxies has changed with
Broker. If you are upgrading and have configured more than one proxy
currenty, we recommend going back down to a single proxy node now.
That should be fine unless you are using custom scripts doing
significant data distribution through the new cluster framework.
A side effect of the switch to using Broker is that each Bro node now runs
as a single process instead of two. Also, the number of file descriptors
being polled in Bro's main event loop has been reduced (1 per worker
versus 5). This should increase the number of workers one can
use before reaching the common 1024 file descriptor limitation of
"select()".
- Bro now has new "is" and "as" script operators for dynamic
type-checking and casting.
- "v as T" casts a value v into a value of type T, assuming that's
possible (if not, it triggers a runtime error).
- "v is T" returns a boolean indicating whether value v can be
casted into type T (i.e., if true then "v as T" will succeed).
This casting supports three cases currently: (1) a value of
declared type "any" can be casted to its actual underlying type;
(2) Broker values can be casted to their corresponding script
types; and (3) all values can be casted to their declared types
(i.e., a no-op).
Example for "any"::
# cat a.bro
function check(a: any)
{
local s: string = "default";
if ( a is string )
s = (a as string);
print fmt("s=%s", s);
}
event bro_init()
{
check("Foo");
check(1);
}
# bro a.bro
s=Foo
s=default
- The existing "switch" statement got extended to now also support switching by
type rather than value. The new syntax supports two type-based versions
of "case":
- "case type T: ...": Take branch if operand can be casted to type T.
- "case type T as x: ... ": Take branch if operand can be casted
to type T, and make the casted value available through ID "x".
Multiple types can be listed per branch, separated by commas.
However, one cannot mix cases with expressions and types inside a
single switch statement.
Example::
function switch_one(v: any)
{
switch (v) {
case type string:
print "It's a string!";
break;
case type count as c:
print "It's a count!", c;
break;
case type bool, type addr:
print "It's a bool or address!";
break;
default:
print "Something else!";
break;
}
}
- Bro now comes with a new "configuration framework" that allows
updating script options dynamically at runtime. This functionality
consists of three larger pieces working together:
- Option variables: The new "option" keyword allows variables to be
declared as runtime options. Such variables cannot be changed
using normal assignments. Instead, they can be changed using the
new function "Config::set_value". This function will automatically
apply the change to all nodes in a cluster. Note that options can also
be changed using the new function "Option::set", but this function will
not send the change to any other nodes, so Config::set_value should
typically be used instead of Option::set.
Various redef-able constants in the standard Bro scripts have
been converted to runtime options. This change will not affect any
user scripts because the initial value of runtime options can still be
redefined with a "redef" declaration. Example::
option testvar = "old value";
redef testvar = "new value";
It is possible to "subscribe" to an option through
"Option::set_change_handler", which will trigger a handler callback
when an option changes. Change handlers can optionally modify
values before they are applied by returning the desired value, or
reject updates by returning the old value. Priorities can be
specified if there are several handlers for one option.
Example script::
option testbool: bool = T;
function option_changed(ID: string, new_value: bool): bool
{
print fmt("Value of %s changed from %s to %s", ID, testbool, new_value);
return new_value;
}
event bro_init()
{
print "Old value", testbool;
Option::set_change_handler("testbool", option_changed);
Option::set("testbool", F);
print "New value", testbool;
}
- Script-level configuration framework: The new script framework
base/framework/config facilitates reading in new option values
from external files at runtime. The format for these files looks
like this::
[option name][tab/spaces][new variable value]
Configuration files to read can be specified by adding them to
"Config::config_files".
Usage example::
redef Config::config_files += { "/path/to/config.dat" };
module TestConfig;
export {
option testbool: bool = F;
}
The specified file will now be monitored continuously for changes, so
that writing "TestConfig::testbool T" into ``/path/to/config.dat`` will
automatically update the option's value accordingly.
The configuration framework creates a ``config.log`` that shows all
value changes that took place.
- Config reader: Internally, the configuration framework uses a new
type of input reader to read such configuration files into Bro.
The reader uses the option name to look up the type that variable
has, converts the read value to the correct type, and then updates
the option's value. Example script use::
type Idx: record {
option_name: string;
};
type Val: record {
option_val: string;
};
global currconfig: table[string] of string = table();
event InputConfig::new_value(name: string, source: string, id: string, value: any)
{
print id, value;
}
event bro_init()
{
Input::add_table([$reader=Input::READER_CONFIG, $source="../configfile", $name="configuration", $idx=Idx, $val=Val, $destination=currconfig, $want_record=F]);
}
- Support for OCSP and Signed Certificate Timestamp. This adds the
following events and BIFs:
- Events:
- ocsp_request
- ocsp_request_certificate
- ocsp_response_status
- ocsp_response_bytes
- ocsp_response_certificate
- ocsp_extension
- x509_ocsp_ext_signed_certificate_timestamp
- ssl_extension_signed_certificate_timestamp
- Functions:
- sct_verify
- x509_subject_name_hash
- x509_issuer_name_hash
- x509_spki_hash
- The SSL scripts provide a new hook "ssl_finishing(c: connection)"
to trigger actions after the handshake has concluded.
- New functionality has been added to the TLS parser, adding several
events. These events mostly extract information from the server and client
key exchange messages. The new events are:
- ssl_ecdh_server_params
- ssl_dh_server_params
- ssl_server_signature
- ssl_ecdh_client_params
- ssl_dh_client_params
- ssl_rsa_client_pms
Since "ssl_ecdh_server_params" contains more information than the old
"ssl_server_curve" event, "ssl_server_curve" is now marked as deprecated.
- The "ssl_application_data" event was retired and replaced with
"ssl_plaintext_data".
- Some SSL events were changed and now provide additional data. These events
are:
- ssl_client_hello
- ssl_server_hello
- ssl_encrypted_data
If you use these events, you can make your scripts work on old and new
versions of Bro by wrapping the event definition in an "@if", for example::
@if ( Version::at_least("2.6") || ( Version::number == 20500 && Version::info$commit >= 944 ) )
event ssl_client_hello(c: connection, version: count, record_version: count, possible_ts: time, client_random: string, session_id: string, ciphers: index_vec, comp_methods: index_vec)
@else
event ssl_client_hello(c: connection, version: count, possible_ts: time, client_random: string, session_id: string, ciphers: index_vec)
@endif
- Functions for retrieving files by their ID have been added:
- Files::file_exists
- Files::lookup_File
- New functions in the logging API:
- Log::get_filter_names
- Log::enable_stream
- HTTP now recognizes and skips upgraded/websocket connections. A new event,
"http_connection_upgrade", is raised in such cases.
- A new hook, HTTP::sqli_policy, may be used to whitelist requests that
could otherwise be counted as SQL injection attempts.
- Added a MOUNT3 protocol parser
- This is not enabled by default (no ports are registered and no
DPD signatures exist, so no connections will end up attaching the
new Mount analyzer). If it were to be activated by users, the
following events are available:
- mount_proc_null
- mount_proc_mnt
- mount_proc_umnt
- mount_proc_umnt_all
- mount_proc_not_implemented
- mount_reply_status
- Added new NFS events:
- nfs_proc_symlink
- nfs_proc_link
- nfs_proc_sattr
- The SMB scripts in ``policy/protocols/smb`` are now moved into
``base/protocols/smb`` and loaded/enabled by default. If you previously
loaded these scripts from their ``policy/`` location (in local.bro or
other custom scripts) you may now remove/change those although they
should still work since ``policy/protocols/smb`` is simply a placeholder
script that redirects to the new ``base/`` location.
- Added new SMB events:
- smb1_transaction_secondary_request
- smb1_transaction2_secondary_request
- smb1_transaction_response
- Bro can now decrypt Kerberos tickets, and retrieve the authentication from
them, given a suitable keytab file.
- Added support for bitwise operations on "count" values. '&', '|' and
'^' are binary "and", "or" and "xor" operators, and '~' is a unary
ones-complement operator.
- The '&' and '|' operators can apply to patterns, too. p1 & p2 yields
a pattern that represents matching p1 followed by p2, and p1 | p2 yields
a pattern representing matching p1 or p2. The p1 | p2 functionality was
semi-present in previous versions of Bro, but required constants as
its operands; now you can use any pattern-valued expressions.
- You can now specify that a pattern matches in a case-insensitive
fashion by adding 'i' to the end of its specification. So for example
/fOO/i == "Foo" yields T, as does /fOO/i in "xFoObar".
You can achieve the same functionality for a subpattern enclosed in
parentheses by adding "?i:" to the open parenthesis. So for example
/foo|(?i:bar)/ will match "BaR", but not "FoO".
For both ways of specifying case-insensitivity, characters enclosed in
double quotes remain case-sensitive. So for example /"foo"/i will not
match "Foo", but it will match "foo".
- "make install" now installs Bro's include headers (and more) into
"--prefix" so that compiling plugins no longer needs access to a
source/build tree. For OS distributions, this also facilitates
creating "bro-devel" packages providing all files necessary to build
plugins.
- Bro now supports PPPoE over QinQ.
- Bro now supports OpenSSL 1.1.
- The new connection/conn.log history character 'W' indicates that
the originator ('w' = responder) advertised a TCP zero window
(instructing the peer to not send any data until receiving a
non-zero window).
- The connection/conn.log history characters 'C' (checksum error seen),
'T' (retransmission seen), and 'W' (zero window advertised) are now
repeated in a logarithmic fashion upon seeing multiple instances
of the corresponding behavior. Thus a connection with 2 C's in its
history means that the originator sent >= 10 packets with checksum
errors; 3 C's means >= 100, etc.
- The above connection history behaviors occurring multiple times
(i.e., starting at 10 instances, than again for 100 instances,
etc.) generate corresponding events:
- tcp_multiple_checksum_errors
- udp_multiple_checksum_errors
- tcp_multiple_zero_windows
- tcp_multiple_retransmissions
Each has the same form, e.g.::
event tcp_multiple_retransmissions(c: connection, is_orig: bool,
threshold: count);
- Added support for set union, intersection, difference, and comparison
operations. The corresponding operators for the first three are
"s1 | s2", "s1 & s2", and "s1 - s2". Relationals are in terms
of subsets, so "s1 < s2" yields true if s1 is a proper subset of s2
and "s1 == s2" if the two sets have exactly the same elements.
"s1 <= s2" holds for subsets or equality, and similarly "s1 != s2",
"s1 > s2", and "s1 >= s2" have the expected meanings in terms
of non-equality, proper superset, and superset-or-equal.
- An expression of the form "v += e" will append the value of the expression
"e" to the end of the vector "v" (of course assuming type-compatibility).
"redef v += { a, b, c }" will similarly extend a vector previously declared
with &redef by appending the result of expressions "a", "b", and "c" to
the vector at initialization-time.
- A new "@deprecated" directive was added. It marks a script-file as
deprecated.
Changed Functionality
---------------------
- All communication is now handled through Broker, requiring changes
to existing scripts to port them over to the new API. The Broker
framework documentation comes with a porting guide.
- The DHCP analyzer and its script-layer interface have been rewritten.
- Supports more DHCP options than before.
- The DHCP log now represents DHCP sessions based on transaction ID
and works on Bro cluster deployments.
- Removed the ``policy/protocols/dhcp/known-devices-and-hostnames.bro``
script since it's generally less relevant now with the updated log.
- Removed the ``base/protocols/dhcp/utils.bro`` script and thus the
"reverse_ip" function.
- Replaced all DHCP events with the single "dhcp_message" event.
The list of removed events includes:
- dhcp_discover
- dhcp_offer
- dhcp_request
- dhcp_decline
- dhcp_ack
- dhcp_nak
- dhcp_release
- dhcp_inform
- A new script, ``policy/protocols/dhcp/deprecated_events.bro``, may be
loaded to aid those transitioning away from the list of "removed"
events above. The script provides definitions for the old events
and automatically generates them from a "dhcp_message" handler, thus
providing equivalent functionality to the previous Bro release.
Such usage emits deprecation warnings.
- Removed ``policy/misc/known-devices.bro`` script and thus
``known_devices.log`` will no longer be created.
- The "--with-binpac" configure option has changed to mean "path
to the binpac executable" instead of "path to binpac installation root".
- The MIME types used to identify X.509 certificates in SSL
connections changed from "application/pkix-cert" to
"application/x-x509-user-cert" for host certificates and
"application/x-x509-ca-cert" for CA certificates.
- The "ssl_server_curve" event is considered deprecated and will be removed
in the future. See the new "ssl_ecdh_server_params" event for a
replacement.
- The Socks analyzer no longer logs passwords by default. This
brings its behavior in line with the FTP/HTTP analyzers which also
do not log passwords by default.
To restore the previous behavior and log Socks passwords, use::
redef SOCKS::default_capture_password = T;
- The DNS base scripts no longer generate some noisy and annoying
weirds:
- dns_unmatched_msg
- dns_unmatched_msg_quantity
- dns_unmatched_reply
- The "tunnel_parents" field of ``conn.log`` is now marked ``&optional``, so,
in the default configuration of logs, this field will show "-"
instead of "(empty)" for connections that lack any tunneling.
- SMB event argument changes:
- "smb1_transaction_request" now has two additional arguments, "parameters"
and "data" strings
- "smb1_transaction2_request" now has an additional "args" record argument
- The "SMB::write_cmd_log" option has been removed and the corresponding
logic moving to ``policy/protocols/smb/log-cmds.bro`` which can simply
be loaded to produce the same effect of toggling the old flag on.
- SSL event argument changes:
- "ssl_server_signature" now has an additional argument
"signature_and_hashalgorithm".
- The "dnp3_header_block" event no longer has the "start" parameter.
- The "string_to_pattern()" and now-deprecated "merge_pattern()"
built-ins are no longer restricted to only be called at initialization time.