Michael Rash [Mon, 11 Jun 2012 03:07:37 +0000]
applied patch from Franck to fix man page paths to reflect new installation directory structure
Michael Rash [Sun, 27 May 2012 18:14:16 +0000]
updated QUEUE_RULES_DIR path to a sub-dir of /var/lib/fwsnort/
Michael Rash [Sun, 27 May 2012 17:37:20 +0000]
added note about trying yum/agt-get installation (Guillermo Gomez)
Michael Rash [Sun, 27 May 2012 17:32:52 +0000]
minor version update (mentioned by Guillermo Gomez)
Michael Rash [Sun, 27 May 2012 17:29:04 +0000]
Merge branch 'refs/heads/fwsnort-1.6.2'
Michael Rash [Sun, 27 May 2012 17:28:50 +0000]
merged fwsnort-1.6.2
Michael Rash [Sun, 27 May 2012 17:27:18 +0000]
GPL license address update (mentioned by Guillermo Gomez)
Michael Rash [Sun, 27 May 2012 17:25:23 +0000]
mentioned Guillermo Gomez as the fwsnort maintainer
Michael Rash [Sun, 29 Apr 2012 00:45:42 +0000]
added ChangeLog.git file
Michael Rash [Sun, 29 Apr 2012 00:45:23 +0000]
bumped version to 1.6.2
Michael Rash [Sat, 28 Apr 2012 18:27:02 +0000]
removed ShortLog in favor of ChangeLog + ChangeLog.git
Michael Rash [Sat, 28 Apr 2012 18:23:56 +0000]
Added --icmp-type 'any' (with capabilities test)
Bug fix for recent versions of iptables (such as 1.4.12) where the icmp
match requires --icmp-type to be set - some Snort rules look for a string
to match in icmp traffic, but don't also specify an icmp type.
Michael Rash [Sat, 28 Apr 2012 15:44:27 +0000]
bug fix psadlibdir -> fwsnortlibdir
Michael Rash [Sat, 28 Apr 2012 15:43:58 +0000]
bug fix for 'qw() used as parenthesis' warnings under perl > 5.14
Michael Rash [Sat, 28 Apr 2012 14:18:16 +0000]
added ChangeLog info for the 1.6.1 and 1.6.2 releases
Michael Rash [Sat, 28 Apr 2012 14:17:48 +0000]
updated RPM spec file version to 1.6.2
Michael Rash [Sat, 28 Apr 2012 14:17:05 +0000]
updated to the latest Snort rules from Emerging Threats
Michael Rash [Fri, 20 Apr 2012 01:30:43 +0000]
moved ChangeLog.old -> ChangeLog (the old style is much more readable)
Michael Rash [Fri, 20 Apr 2012 01:30:16 +0000]
minor documentation fixes
Michael Rash [Fri, 20 Apr 2012 01:29:58 +0000]
added 1.6.2 release
Michael Rash [Fri, 20 Apr 2012 01:28:50 +0000]
Removed the ExtUtils::MakeMaker build requirement
Although building the fwsnort RPM builds a set of perl modules which themselves
have the 'use ExtUtils::MakeMaker' requirement in their respective Makefile.PL
scripts, some Linux distributions don't seem to make it easy to install
ExtUtils::MakeMaker in a manner in which the local RPM install can see it.
And, at the same time, it usually is there since installing perl modules is
such a common operation. The compromise is this solution, which will allow the
fwsnort RPM to be built even if RPM dosen't or can't see that ExtUtils::MakeMaker
is installed - most likely it will build anyway. If it doesn't, there are
bigger problems since fwsnort is written in perl. If you want to build the fwsnort
RPM with a .spec file that requires ExtUtils::MakeMaker, then use the
"fwsnort-require-makemaker.spec" file that is bundled in the fwsnort sources.
Michael Rash [Sat, 3 Mar 2012 03:58:11 +0000]
updated IPTables::Parse to 1.1
Michael Rash [Tue, 21 Feb 2012 01:33:18 +0000]
updated to IPTables::Parse 0.8
Michael Rash [Sun, 19 Feb 2012 18:21:27 +0000]
bumped version to 1.6.2-pre1
Michael Rash [Sat, 18 Feb 2012 19:33:29 +0000]
converted from Net::AddrIPv4 to the excellent NetAddr::IP module
Michael Rash [Sat, 18 Feb 2012 19:33:19 +0000]
converted from Net::AddrIPv4 to the excellent NetAddr::IP module
Michael Rash [Fri, 17 Feb 2012 02:32:19 +0000]
added the proper ChangeLog back in
Michael Rash [Fri, 17 Feb 2012 02:24:25 +0000]
bumped version to 1.6.2-pre1
Michael Rash [Fri, 17 Feb 2012 02:18:44 +0000]
Switched --no-ipt-sync to default to not syncing with the iptables policy
By default fwsnort attempts to match translated Snort rules to the running
iptables policy, but this is tough to do well because iptables policies can be
complex. And, before fwsnort switched to the iptables-save format for
instantiating the policy, a large set of translated rules could take a really
long time to make active within the kernel. Finally, many Snort rules restrict
themselves to established TCP connections anyway, and if a restrictive policy
doesn't allow connections to get into the established state for some port let's
say, then there is little harm in having translated Snort rules for this port.
Some kernel memory would be wasted (small), but no performance would be lost
since packets won't be processed against these rules anyway. The end result is
that the default behavior is now to not sync with the local iptables policy in
favor of translating and instantiating as many rules as possible.
This commit also moves the fwsnort.sh script and associated files into the
/var/lib/fwsnort/ directory.
Michael Rash [Fri, 17 Feb 2012 01:36:59 +0000]
updated to the latest emerging threats Snort rules
Michael Rash [Fri, 2 Sep 2011 03:04:14 +0000]
bumped version to 1.6.1
Michael Rash [Fri, 2 Sep 2011 02:58:22 +0000]
(Kim Hagen) Bug fix for 'Couldn't load target' error
Kim Hagen submitted this patch for a bug in fwsnort-1.6 where the fwsnort
policy in iptables-save format could not be loaded whenever iptables-save put
the nat table output after the filter table output. In this case, fwsnort
would fail with an error like the following (fixed in fwsnort-1.6.1):
Couldn't load target
`FWSNORT_FORWARD_ESTAB':/lib/xtables/libipt_FWSNORT_FORWARD_ESTAB.so:
cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
fwsnort now invokes 'iptables-save -t filter' in order to ensure that
ordering issues do not affect how fwsnort builds its translated rule set.
Michael Rash [Fri, 2 Sep 2011 02:13:18 +0000]
Bug fix for fast_pattern interpretation for relative matches
This change ensures that fwsnort does not attempt to re-order pattern matches
for patterns that have a relative match requirement. For non-relative matches
fwsnort re-orders pattern matches based on the pattern length, reasoning that
the longest pattern should be processed first for better performance. The
usage of the fast_pattern keyword give the user explicit control over this.
Here is a Snort rule that is now properly handled by fwsnort:
alert tcp $EXTERNAL_NET $HTTP_PORTS -> $HOME_NET any (msg:"ET WEB_CLIENT Possible Adobe Reader and Acrobat Forms Data Format Remote Security Bypass Attempt"; flow:established,to_client; file_data; content:"%FDF-"; depth:300; content:"/F(JavaScript|3a|"; nocase; distance:0; classtype:attempted-user; reference:url,www.securityfocus.com/bid/37763; reference:cve,2009-3956; reference:url,doc.emergingthreats.net/2010664; reference:url,www.emergingthreats.net/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/sigs/CURRENT_EVENTS/CURRENT_Adobe; reference:url,www.stratsec.net/files/SS-2010-001_Stratsec_Acrobat_Script_Injection_Security_Advisory_v1.0.pdf; sid:2010664; rev:8;)
Before this change, fwsnort translated this rule as:
$IPTABLES -A FWSNORT_FORWARD_ESTAB -p tcp -m tcp --sport 80 -m string --hex-string "/F(JavaScript|3a|" --algo bm --from 69 --icase -m string --hex-string "%FDF|2d|" --algo bm --to 364 -m comment --comment "sid:2010664; msg:ET WEB_CLIENT Possible Adobe Reader and Acrobat Forms Data Format Remote Security Bypass Attempt; classtype:attempted-user; reference:url,www.securityfocus.com/bid/37763; rev:8; FWS:1.6;" -j LOG --log-ip-options --log-tcp-options --log-prefix "SID2010664 ESTAB "
Note that in the above rule, the "/F(JavaScript|3a|" pattern was switched to
be evaluated first even though it is a relative match to the previous pattern
in the original Snort rule. After this change, fwsnort translates this rule
as:
$IPTABLES -A FWSNORT_FORWARD_ESTAB -p tcp -m tcp --sport 80 -m string --hex-string "%FDF|2d|" --algo bm --to 364 -m string --hex-string "/F(JavaScript|3a|" --algo bm --from 69 --icase -m comment --comment "sid:2010664; msg:ET WEB_CLIENT Possible Adobe Reader and Acrobat Forms Data Format Remote Security Bypass Attempt; classtype:attempted-user; reference:url,www.securityfocus.com/bid/37763; rev:8; FWS:1.6;" -j LOG --log-ip-options --log-tcp-options --log-prefix "SID2010664 ESTAB "
Michael Rash [Fri, 2 Sep 2011 02:09:41 +0000]
Updated to the latest Emerging Threats rule set
Update to the latest 'emerging-all.rules' Snort rule set from Emerging Threats
(http://www.emergingthreats.net).
Michael Rash [Fri, 29 Jul 2011 00:40:36 +0000]
Updated ChangeLog and added the ShortLog file
Minor change to update the global ChangeLog and added the ShortLog file.
Michael Rash [Fri, 29 Jul 2011 00:19:41 +0000]
Added iptables capabilities test for COMMENT len
In keeping with the ability to test the capabilities of iptables where fwsnort
is deployed, added the ability find the maximum length of a string provided to
the COMMENT match. This match is used to store Snort rule information within
the running fwsnort policy.
Michael Rash [Wed, 27 Jul 2011 02:17:08 +0000]
Added the ChangeLog file for 'git log' output.
The complete ChangeLog is derived from 'git log' with this commit. Version-
specific change logs will be included with each release.
Michael Rash [Wed, 27 Jul 2011 02:12:02 +0000]
Bumped version from 1.5 to 1.6
Bumped version from 1.5 to 1.6 in preparation for the upcoming release.
Michael Rash [Wed, 27 Jul 2011 01:53:52 +0000]
Renamed ChangeLog -> ChangeLog.old
Renamed ChangeLog -> ChangeLog.old after the svn -> git conversion. All
ChangeLog* files from now on will conform to:
ChangeLog.v<num> <-- This is the change log for the released version.
ChangeLog <-- The complete log output from git.
Michael Rash [Fri, 22 Jul 2011 03:03:29 +0000]
Added support for rules updates from several URL's
Added support for grabbing Snort rules from multiple URL's via a new variable
UPDATE_RULES_URL in the /etc/fwsnort/fwsnort.conf file. This variable can be
specified multiple times.
Michael Rash [Thu, 21 Jul 2011 03:00:07 +0000]
Added --queue-pre-match-max <num> argument
Added a new command line arg --queue-pre-match-max <num> that allows the number
of patterns that will be matched within the kernel before sending a packet to
a userspace Snort instance (via the QUEUE or NFQUEUE targets) to be limited.
Here is an example for the "ET WEB_CLIENT Possible Internet Explorer srcElement
Memory Corruption Attempt" signature from Emerging Threats (sid 2010799).
First, here is the original rule:
alert tcp $EXTERNAL_NET $HTTP_PORTS -> $HOME_NET any (msg:"ET WEB_CLIENT Possible Internet Explorer srcElement Memory Corruption Attempt"; flow:established,to_client; file_data; content:"document.createEventObject"; distance:0; nocase; content:".innerHTML"; within:100; nocase; content:"window.setInterval"; distance:0; nocase; content:"srcElement"; fast_pattern; nocase; distance:0; classtype:attempted-user; reference:url,www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms10-002.mspx; reference:url,tools.cisco.com/security/center/viewAlert.x?alertId=19726; reference:url,www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/492515; reference:cve,2010-0249; reference:url,doc.emergingthreats.net/2010799; reference:url,www.emergingthreats.net/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/sigs/CURRENT_EVENTS/CURRENT_MSIE; sid:2010799; rev:5;)
The translated rule is shown below in the iptables-save format after running
the command "fwsnort --no-ipt-sync --no-ipt-rule-num --NFQUEUE --snort-sid 2010799":
-A FWSNORT_FORWARD_ESTAB -p tcp -m tcp --sport 80 -m string --string "srcElement" --algo bm --from 82 --icase -m string --string "document.createEventObject" --algo bm --from 64 --icase -m string --string ".innerHTML" --algo bm --to 190 --icase -m string --string "window.setInterval" --algo bm --from 74 --icase -m comment --comment "sid:2010799; msg:ET WEB_CLIENT Possible Internet Explorer srcElement Memory Corruption Attempt; classtype:attempted-user; reference:url,www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms10-002.mspx; rev:5; FWS:1.5;" -j NFQUEUE
Now, by using the --queue-pre-match-max argument, instead of forcing iptables
to match on all four patterns in the original rule, we limit it to matching
only the first pattern. Note also that fwsnort has interpreted the 'fast_pattern'
keyword so that the "srcElement" pattern is searched for instead of the pattern
"document.createEventObject" which is the first to appear in the original rule.
Here is the command:
fwsnort --no-ipt-sync --no-ipt-rule-num --NFQUEUE --snort-sid 2010799 --queue-pre-match-max 1
The translated rule is now:
-A FWSNORT_FORWARD_ESTAB -p tcp -m tcp --sport 80 -m string --string "srcElement" --algo bm --from 82 --icase -m comment --comment "sid:2010799; msg:ET WEB_CLIENT Possible Internet Explorer srcElement Memory Corruption Attempt; classtype:attempted-user; reference:url,www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms10-002.mspx; rev:5; FWS:1.5;" -j NFQUEUE
Michael Rash [Sun, 17 Jul 2011 18:25:05 +0000]
Minor man page wording update for NFQUEUE mode
Minor man page wording update for NFQUEUE mode to make sure to convey to the
reader the need to disable the stream preprocessor for the userspace
snort_inline instance.
Michael Rash [Sun, 17 Jul 2011 18:20:54 +0000]
Added iptables capabilities test for NFQUEUE modes
Added a test to see whether iptables supports either the QUEUE or NFQUEUE
targets in --QUEUE and --NFQUEUE modes respectively.
Michael Rash [Sun, 17 Jul 2011 17:09:57 +0000]
Bugfix to support --NFQUEUE mode
With the recent code refactoring for the Snort 'fast_pattern' keyword, the
--QUEUE and --NFQUEUE modes were broken in the process. This changes restores
these modes:
./fwsnort --no-ipt-sync --NFQUEUE |grep Generated
[+] Generated iptables rules for 12916 out of 13131 signatures: 98.36%
Michael Rash [Sun, 17 Jul 2011 16:39:16 +0000]
Ignore http_uri, http_method, and urilen
iptables has no good way to support the http_uri, http_method, and urilen Snort
keywords, so this change ignores them. The tradeoff is that certain signatures
may have a higher rate of false positives, but detection may outweigh this for
rules like this one:
alert tcp $HOME_NET any -> $EXTERNAL_NET $HTTP_PORTS (msg:"ET TROJAN Unknown Generic Trojan Checkin"; flow:established,to_server; content:"unit_id="; http_uri; content:"&uv_id="; http_uri; content:"&uv_new="; http_uri; content:"&url="; http_uri; content:"&charset="; http_uri; content:"&hashval="; http_uri; content:"&app="; http_uri; content:"&lg="; http_uri; classtype:trojan-activity; sid:2013204; rev:1;)
It is possible to force fwsnort to not ignore the http_* keywords with the
--strict command line argument.
The number of signatures that this change picks up is trivial though for the
bundled signature set in the deps/snort_rules/ directory:
Before:
./fwsnort --no-ipt-sync |grep Generated
[+] Generated iptables rules for 9341 out of 13131 signatures: 71.14%
After:
./fwsnort --no-ipt-sync |grep Generated
[+] Generated iptables rules for 9343 out of 13131 signatures: 71.15%
Michael Rash [Sun, 17 Jul 2011 02:50:30 +0000]
Updated to allow non-root users to execute fwsnort.
This update allows non-root users to run fwsnort, but a modified fwsnort.conf
file must be supplied that changes various paths. Running as a non-root user
is mostly only useful to see how fwsnort translates certain Snort rules. Here
is an example of running fwsnort as a non-root user:
$ ./fwsnort -c fwsnort.conf.nonroot --snort-sid 1234 |less
[+] Parsing Snort rules files...
[+] Found sid: 1234 in web-misc.rules
Successful translation.
[+] Logfile: /home/mbr/git/fwsnort.git/fwsnort.log
[+] iptables script (individual commands): /home/mbr/git/fwsnort.git/fwsnort_iptcmds.sh
[*] Could not write to: /home/mbr/git/fwsnort.git/fwsnort.sh at ./fwsnort line 4418.
[mbr@minastirith ~/git/fwsnort.git]$ ./fwsnort -c fwsnort.conf.nonroot --snort-sid 1234 |less
[+] Parsing Snort rules files...
[+] Found sid: 1234 in web-misc.rules
Successful translation.
[+] Logfile: /home/mbr/git/fwsnort.git/fwsnort.log
[+] iptables script (individual commands): /home/mbr/git/fwsnort.git/fwsnort_iptcmds.sh
Main fwsnort iptables-save file: /home/mbr/git/fwsnort.git/fwsnort.save
It does not appear as though you are running as root, so it is NOT
recommended that you become root and execute the fwsnort.sh script. The
reason is that non-root users cannot execute iptables, and therefore
fwsnort had no way to check for iptables capabilities or to parse any
existing iptables policy for proper splicing of the fwsnort rules.
Exiting.
Michael Rash [Fri, 15 Jul 2011 02:17:20 +0000]
Minor change to not write args in --help mode.
Minor update to exclude 'fwsnort --help' from the saved command line arguments
copy. This ensures that 'fwsnort --Last' does not just re-execute
'fwsnort --help'.
Michael Rash [Sun, 10 Jul 2011 18:37:30 +0000]
Added support for the Snort 'nocase' keyword
The iptables string match extension supports case insensitive matches with
the --icase option. This commit updates fwsnort to leverage --icase whenever
the 'nocase' modifier it applied to a pattern match in a Snort rule.
Michael Rash [Sun, 10 Jul 2011 03:59:15 +0000]
Updated to the latest Emerging Threats Snort rules
Updated to the latest Emerging Threats Snort rules - this file contains over
10,000 rules now. Here is some sample translation output stats with fwsnort:
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Snort Rules File Success Fail Total
[+] emerging-all.rules 7440 2582 10022
=============================
7440 2582 10022
[+] Generated iptables rules for 7440 out of 10022 signatures: 74.24%
Michael Rash [Sun, 10 Jul 2011 02:44:44 +0000]
Added iptables 'multiport' match support
The iptables 'multiport' match is now supported, and this enables fwsnort to
properly translate a few Snort rules from the emerging threats rule set like
this one:
alert tcp $HOME_NET [0:20,22:24,26:138,140:444,446:464,466:586,588:901,903:1432,1434:65535] -> any any (msg:"ET MALWARE Suspicious FTP 220 Banner on Local Port (spaced)"; flow:from_server,established; content:"220 "; depth:4; content:!"VMware Authentication Daemon"; depth:32; classtype:non-standard-protocol; reference:url,doc.emergingthreats.net/2011124; reference:url,www.emergingthreats.net/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/sigs/MALWARE/MALWARE_Off_Port_FTP; sid:2011124; rev:12;)
The translated version is now:
$IPTABLES -A FWSNORT_FORWARD_ESTAB -p tcp -m tcp -m multiport --sports 0:20,22:24,26:138,140:444,446:464,466:586,588:901 -m string ! --string "VMware Authentication Daemon" --algo bm --to 96 -m string --string "220 " --algo bm --to 68 -m comment --comment "sid:2011124; msg:ET MALWARE Suspicious FTP 220 Banner on Local Port (spaced); classtype:non-standard-protocol; reference:url,doc.emergingthreats.net/2011124; rev:12; FWS:1.5;" -j LOG --log-ip-options --log-tcp-options --log-prefix "SID2011124 ESTAB "
Michael Rash [Sat, 9 Jul 2011 20:21:35 +0000]
Added --no-fast-pattern-order to --help output
Added --no-fast-pattern-order to --help output and also added the
'fast_pattern' hash key to the 'ignore' bucket if --no-fast-pattern-order is
given on the command line.
Michael Rash [Sat, 9 Jul 2011 20:07:53 +0000]
Implemented tighter 'within' criteria
This commit fixes a problem where fwsnort was in some cases too lax with how it
calculated relative pattern matching depths that are defined via the Snort 'within'
keyword. This should result in fewer fwsnort log messages for certain signatures.
An example signature that this change improves is:
alert tcp $HOME_NET any -> $AIM_SERVERS any (msg:"CHAT AIM login"; flow:to_server,established; content:"*|02|"; depth:2; content:"|00 17 00 06|"; distance:4; within:8; classtype:policy-violation; sid:1631; rev:7;)
fwsnort previous to this change translated this as a set of signatures including
the following (allowing for the multiple IP's in the $AIM_SERVERS variable):
$IPTABLES -A FWSNORT_FORWARD_ESTAB -d 64.12.24.0/24 -p tcp -m tcp -m string --hex-string "*|02|" --algo bm --to 66 -m string --hex-string "|
00170006|" --algo bm --from 70 --to 76 -m comment --comment "sid:1631; msg:CHAT AIM login; classtype:policy-violation; rev:7; FWS:1.5;" -j LOG --log-ip-options --log-tcp-options --log-prefix "SID1631 ESTAB "
After this change the signature becomes:
$IPTABLES -A FWSNORT_FORWARD_ESTAB -d 64.12.24.0/24 -p tcp -m tcp -m string --hex-string "*|02|" --algo bm --to 66 -m string --hex-string "|
00170006|" --algo bm --from 70 --to 74 -m comment --comment "sid:1631; msg:CHAT AIM login; classtype:policy-violation; rev:7; FWS:1.5;" -j LOG --log-ip-options --log-tcp-options --log-prefix "SID1631 ESTAB "
Note that in the second pattern match the --to criteria has been reduced from
76 to 74. (The second rule was generated with --no-fast-pattern-ordering to
make the diff make sense more easily.)
Michael Rash [Sat, 9 Jul 2011 16:00:23 +0000]
Added the --no-fast-pattern-ordering argument
Added --no-fast-pattern-ordering to have fwsnort not try to reorder pattern
matches to process the longest pattern first. This option also instructs
fwsnort to ignore the Snort 'fast_pattern' keyword in any Snort rule.
Michael Rash [Sat, 9 Jul 2011 15:47:19 +0000]
Moved GetOpt() call to handle_cmd_line()
Minor updated to move the GetOpt() function call for parsing command line args
to the handle_cmd_line() function (where it should have been for a while).
Michael Rash [Sat, 9 Jul 2011 02:50:13 +0000]
minor man page wording update
Michael Rash [Sat, 9 Jul 2011 02:47:05 +0000]
Fixed fast_pattern support for relative matches
This is a significant code refactoring in order to support the fast_pattern
keyword when relative matches are involved. Previous to this change, the
initial fast_pattern implementation would not take into account how the
iptables --from and --to keywords should be set under the 'distance' and
'within' keywords.
Michael Rash [Wed, 6 Jul 2011 03:14:19 +0000]
Added 'detection_filter' to not supported list
The newer 'detection_filter' Snort keyword (a replacement for the older
'threshold' keyword) is not supported yet. The iptables limit match should
be able to help here eventually.
Michael Rash [Wed, 6 Jul 2011 02:46:34 +0000]
minor comment wording update for TCP options
Michael Rash [Tue, 5 Jul 2011 10:47:25 +0000]
Added content match ordering based on length
In cases where the 'fast_pattern' option is not used, Snort generally tries to
pick the longest pattern to match first since this should usually result in
better performance. That is, longer there is a higher chance for a longer
string to be more unique, and this would result in shorter strings from not
being searched for. This works in the context of iptables because 'matches'
are AND'd togther, so if the first string match fails, no subsequent string
matches will be executed. Hence, the search for "shortstr" below would not
happen if the search for "thisisalongstring" failed:
-m string --string 'thisisalongstring' --algo bm -m string --string 'shortstr' --algo bm
One thing to note is that iptables does not support relative string matches
in the same way that Snort does. The iptables string match can specify an
offset and depth into the packet via --from and --to. The end result is that
the fwsnort way of maximizing performance is to find the longest string, do
the match, and apply an approximation for --from and --to whenever they are
required for any pattern. That is, it doesn't have to worry about relative
matches and finding the end of a pattern in order to know where to start the
next search. Now, this will result in signature matching in fwsnort not
being as accurate as Snort (remember that fwsnort emulates Snort behavior as
closely as possible given functionality implemented in iptables), but it
should be faster.
Michael Rash [Tue, 5 Jul 2011 02:19:53 +0000]
Merge branch 'master' of github.com:mrash/fwsnort
Michael Rash [Tue, 5 Jul 2011 01:57:14 +0000]
Added 'fast_pattern' support + no patterns bug fix
Added support for the Snort 'fast_pattern' keyword which is used to force a
particular payload match to be done first. This allows the signature author
to optimize the performance of certain signatures based on a knowledge of
how likely certain strings are to match within application layer protocols.
A gooo write up of the 'fast_pattern' keyword was posted to the VRT blog
here:
http://vrt-blog.snort.org/2010/04/using-snort-fast-patterns-wisely-for.html
Also fixed a bug that would exclude all signatures that do not have at least
one content match. A good example of such a signature is this one:
alert tcp $EXTERNAL_NET 6112 -> $HOME_NET any (msg:"ET GAMES Battle.net
connection reset (possible IP-Ban)"; flags:R,12; classtype: policy-violation;
reference:url,doc.emergingthreats.net/bin/view/Main/2002117;
reference:url,www.emergingthreats.net/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/sigs/GAMES/GAMES_Battlenet;
sid:2002117; rev:6;)
Between this bug fix and the 'fast_pattern' support, fwsnort is able to
translated nearly 300 additional signatures beyond the fwsnort-1.5 release:
[+] Generated iptables rules for 8529 out of 12224 signatures: 69.77%
[+] Generated iptables rules for 8812 out of 12224 signatures: 72.09%
Michael Rash [Tue, 5 Jul 2011 01:57:14 +0000]
Added support for Snort keyword 'fast_pattern'
Added support for the Snort 'fast_pattern' keyword which is used to force a
particular payload match to be done first. This allows the signature author
to optimize the performance of certain signatures based on a knowledge of
how likely certain strings are to match within application layer protocols.
A gooo write up of the 'fast_pattern' keyword was posted to the VRT blog
here:
http://vrt-blog.snort.org/2010/04/using-snort-fast-patterns-wisely-for.html
Michael Rash [Fri, 1 Jul 2011 00:52:22 +0000]
minor man page wording update
Michael Rash [Fri, 1 Jul 2011 00:50:30 +0000]
Added three Snort signature keywords
Added the 'detection_filter', 'threshold', and 'urilen' Snort rule keywords.
Also included a minor update to calculate max keyword length on the fly.
Michael Rash [Thu, 30 Jun 2011 00:23:38 +0000]
Added newer Snort keywords to snort_opts.pl
Added Snort keywords fast_pattern, http_header, http_uri, and http_method
to the snort_opts.pl script.
Michael Rash [Tue, 28 Jun 2011 02:39:57 +0000]
minor ChangeLog update
Michael Rash [Tue, 28 Jun 2011 01:41:19 +0000]
Bugfix for --ipt-apply to exec fwsnort.sh
Fixed the --ipt-apply functionality - the variable that held the fwsnort.sh
path was not initialized properly prior to this change.
Michael Rash [Tue, 21 Jun 2011 01:00:57 +0000]
Added the --Conntrack-state argument
Added the --Conntrack-state argument to specify a conntrack state in place of
the "established" state that commonly accompanies the Snort "flow" keyword.
By default, fwsnort uses the conntrack state of "ESTABLISHED" for this. In
certain corner cases, it might be useful to use "ESTABLISHED,RELATED" instead
to apply application layer inspection to things like ICMP port unreachable
messages that are responses to real attempted communications. (Need to add
UDP tracking for the _ESTAB chains for this too - coming soon.)
Michael Rash [Tue, 21 Jun 2011 00:09:06 +0000]
Added test for conntrack --ctstate
Recent releases of iptables and the Linux kernel support matching
on connection state via the conntrack modules and the --ctstate
switch. Added a capabilities test for this, and will fall back to
using the state match if the conntrack module is not available.
Michael Rash [Sun, 19 Jun 2011 15:58:05 +0000]
Bugfix for --ipt-list and --ipt-flush
Fixed a problem with --ipt-list and --ipt-flush to ensure that the proper
iptables binary path is chosen. These args failed without this because the
iptables binary was not set.
Michael Rash [Sun, 19 Jun 2011 15:14:44 +0000]
Bugfix for --log-prefix maximum lengths
Bugfix to ensure the iptables log prefixes built by fwsnort are not
longer than those allowed by the running iptables firewall. This is
usually a total of 29 characters, but fwsnort now dynamically figures out
this value.
This bug was originally reported by Yves Pagani to the fwsnort mailing
list.
Michael Rash [Sun, 19 Jun 2011 02:40:56 +0000]
Removed old reference to $rev_num
In keeping with svn, fwsnort used to store the $Id$ file ID into $rev_num. This
has been removed.
Michael Rash [Sun, 19 Jun 2011 01:09:12 +0000]
Removed legacy $Id$ tags (for old svn repos)
$Id$ tags don't really mean anything to git so they have been removed from all
source files.
Michael Rash [Sun, 9 Jan 2011 14:54:49 +0000]
wording fix for the fwsnort-1.5 ChangeLog
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Michael Rash [Sun, 9 Jan 2011 03:14:15 +0000]
bumped software version to 1.5
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Michael Rash [Mon, 3 Jan 2011 01:46:00 +0000]
minor date update
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Michael Rash [Mon, 3 Jan 2011 01:45:26 +0000]
bumped version to: 1.5-pre5
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Michael Rash [Mon, 3 Jan 2011 01:38:51 +0000]
copyright date update
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Michael Rash [Mon, 3 Jan 2011 01:37:31 +0000]
added UPGRADE section
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Michael Rash [Fri, 31 Dec 2010 15:50:02 +0000]
update to include information about the iptables-save format
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Michael Rash [Fri, 31 Dec 2010 15:38:13 +0000]
minor wording update to include ip6tables policies
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Michael Rash [Fri, 31 Dec 2010 15:37:04 +0000]
added the ability to build ip6tables policies in ip6tables-save format
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Michael Rash [Fri, 31 Dec 2010 14:41:21 +0000]
minor update to include the GPL version number (v2) suggested by Guillermo Gomez
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Michael Rash [Tue, 28 Dec 2010 04:13:57 +0000]
bumped to version 1.5-pre4
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Michael Rash [Sun, 26 Dec 2010 22:14:01 +0000]
- Added the --string-match-alg argument to allow the string matching
algorithm used by fwsnort to be specified from the command line. The
default algorithm is 'bm' for 'Boyer-Moore', but 'kmp' may also be
specified (short for the 'Knuth–Morris–Pratt' algorithm).
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Michael Rash [Fri, 24 Dec 2010 04:39:52 +0000]
bumped version to 1.5-pre3
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Michael Rash [Fri, 24 Dec 2010 04:39:26 +0000]
- Updated to the latest complete rule set from Emerging Threats (see
http://www.emergingthreats.net/).
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Michael Rash [Fri, 24 Dec 2010 04:39:04 +0000]
updated to default to pulling Snort rules from the rules directory in --snort-rfile mode when running as root
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Michael Rash [Fri, 24 Dec 2010 04:26:53 +0000]
bug fix to make sure to add the 'COMMIT' and '# Completed ...' lines at the end of the generated fwsnort.save file
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Michael Rash [Fri, 24 Dec 2010 04:26:06 +0000]
updated to point to the correct Emerging Threats rule set, and added the --rules-url arg (similiar to fwsnort)
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Michael Rash [Thu, 23 Dec 2010 04:48:24 +0000]
bumped version to: 1.5-pre2
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Michael Rash [Thu, 23 Dec 2010 04:48:09 +0000]
- Added the --rules-url argument so that the URL for updating the
Emerging Threats rule set can be specified from the command line. The
default is:
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Michael Rash [Thu, 23 Dec 2010 04:38:01 +0000]
bumped version to 1.5-pre1
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Michael Rash [Thu, 23 Dec 2010 04:37:45 +0000]
minor comments update
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Michael Rash [Thu, 23 Dec 2010 04:31:15 +0000]
moved to instantiate the fwsnort iptables-save policy via /etc/fwsnort/fwsnort.sh
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Michael Rash [Tue, 14 Dec 2010 15:16:56 +0000]
- Updated to automatically check for the maximum length string that the
string match supports, and this is used to through out any Snort rules
with content matches longer than this length.
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Michael Rash [Tue, 14 Dec 2010 14:24:30 +0000]
- Updated the iptables capabilities testing routines to add and delete
testing rules to/from the custom chain 'FWS_CAP_TEST'. This maintains a
a cleaner separation between fwsnort and any existing iptables policy
even during the capabilities testing phase.
- Added the --ipt-check-capabilities argument to have fwsnort test the
capabilities of the local iptables firewall and exit.
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Michael Rash [Fri, 23 Jul 2010 01:09:19 +0000]
Major update to being moving to using the iptables-save format instead of the older
strategy to always just execute iptables commands directly.
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Michael Rash [Sat, 6 Feb 2010 03:33:39 +0000]
updated GPL license string to mention GPLv2
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Michael Rash [Sat, 6 Feb 2010 03:33:22 +0000]
minor version fix (1.1)
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