On Wed, 2011-11-09 at 11:55 -0600, Ryan Barnett wrote:
> On 11/9/11 12:48 PM, "Ross Lawrie" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> >On Wed, 2011-11-09 at 10:10 +0200, Josh Amishav-Zlatin wrote:
> >> On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 6:59 PM, Ross Lawrie <[email protected]>
> >>wrote:
> >>
> >> > This did help a little, the path was in need of updating, so I made
> >>that
> >> > change, but the problem persisted. This lead me to try running the lua
> >> > scripts from the command line which resulted in "module 'rex_pcre' not
> >> > found". I'm wondering if anyone is aware of a Debian (lenny) rex_pcre
> >>
> >> Hi Ross,
> >>
> >> Have you tried liblua5.1-rex-pcre0?
> >>
> >> --
> >>  - Josh
> >
> >Josh,
> >
> >Unfortunately that package doesn't exist for Debian Lenny (5.0.9). It
> >looks like it exists for Squeeze and higher, but at this point I can't
> >quite migrate this system to Squeeze. Thanks!
> >
> >Ross.
> 
> 
> Hey Ross,
> A couple points about the advaced_filter_converter.lua script -
> 
> 1) As you noted - there are Lua module dependencies.  You will need both
> rex (for extended regular expressions) and bitop.  These modules are
> needed in order to properly mimic the data conversion that PHPIDS'
> converter.php script
> (https://dev.itratos.de/projects/php-ids/repository/raw/trunk/lib/IDS/Conve
> rter.php)  is doing.
> 
> 2) We ran into some issues with that Lua script during the SQL Injection
> Challenge
> (http://blog.spiderlabs.com/2011/07/modsecurity-sql-injection-challenge-les
> sons-learned.html) where certain payloads were actually causing the Lua
> script to abort... :(  This script needs more testing.
> 
> 3) Due to issue #2, we opted, in the latest CRS, to update the actual
> PHPIDS regex filters themselves to try and include the converter logic
> within the operator vs. requiring the Lua script to first normalize data.
> So, if you are running the latest CRS, you can use the
> modsecurity_crs_41_sql_injection_attack.conf file and not need to use the
> advanced filters conf.
> 
> Hope this info helps.
> 
> -Ryan
> 

Great, I'll try rolling out the latest CRS (v2.2.2 right?) and leave out
the advanced_filters. Thanks so much for the help and advice!

Ross.


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