Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Redback Lawful Intercept Dissector

From: Andrew Feren <acferen@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:01:17 -0700 (PDT)
Thanks.  I tried to check the bugs this morning, but unfortunately the site was not working for me.  I'll check again in a bit.
 
-Andrew Feren
 acferen@xxxxxxxxx

----- Original Message ----
From: Michael A. McCartney <mccart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Developer support list for Wireshark <wireshark-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 10:04:57 AM
Subject: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Redback Lawful Intercept Dissector

Andrew,

See http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2376

There is a proposed one line fix for that EOH issue,
and I had same question about where is the protocol
specs.

Thanks-Mike


Andrew Feren wrote:
> I've recently started getting a number of false positive hits from the new
> Redback Lawful Intercept heuristic.  I was going to try and tighten up the
> heuristic a bit, but I can't find any sort of protocol specification.
>
> Basically I use some protocols that start with a 32 bit version number. 
> However since the version numers are all well below 65,535 the first two
> bytes are always 0.  The Redback heuristic sees this as an end of header
> marker and returns true.
>
> My thought was to return false if the first avptype is an end of header
> marker, but without a protocol spec I can't be sure that this is actually an
> invalid redback packet.
>
> Anyone have any more details?
>
> -Andrew
>
> -Andrew Feren
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