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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">It's been a few months since the last
RPM release, v0.1-12, on 26-JUNE. Since that time we've had 175
patches reflecting feature requests, bug fixes, and the addition
of Fedora content to the project (thanks, Jan!). <br>
<br>
A few highlights:<br>
- New version scheme to ensure compliance with EPEL release syntax
(namely, the addition of .rc#).<br>
<br>
- Reducing false positives has been a specific focus over the past
few months. To that end, many community members have began unit
testing the OVAL checks and inserted a "test_attestation" tag.
This tag indicates both fail and pass configurations have been
unit tested, and to date, 216 of the 341 OVAL checks have gone
through this process. The majority of the tested OVAL checks fall
within the STIG profile.<br>
<br>
- As OVAL checks have been unit tested, many corresponding bash
scripts have been authored. Currently there are 133 checks with
associated bash remediation. To generate bash scripts, first run a
scan:<br>
<blockquote type="cite"># oscap xccdf eval --profile
stig-rhel6-server \<br>
--results /root/ssg-results/results.xml \<br>
--report /root/ssg-results/report.html \<br>
--cpe
/usr/share/xml/scap/ssg/content/ssg-rhel6-cpe-dictionary.xml \<br>
/usr/share/xml/scap/ssg/content/ssg-rhel6-xccdf.xml </blockquote>
<br>
Then use OpenSCAP to transform out bash scripts for any failed
checks:<br>
<blockquote type="cite"># oscap xccdf generate fix \<br>
--result-id xccdf_org.open-scap_testresult_stig-rhel6-server \<br>
/root/ssg-results/results.xml >
/root/ssg-results/ssg-fixes.sh</blockquote>
<br>
- Addressing user-reported bugfixes, both to core SSG content and
bugs reported to DISA FSO against the RHEL6 STIG, has also been a
focus. Examples include updates to the logrotate and PAM checks.<br>
<br>
- The inclusion of a <u><i>beta</i></u> Certified Cloud Provider
profile (rht-ccp). The Red Hat Certified Cloud Provider program
ensures that public cloud providers meet "testing and
certification requirements to demonstrate that they can deliver a
safe, scalable, supported and consistent environment for
enterprise cloud deployments. The Red Hat Certified Cloud Provider
program provides customers, ISVs, and partners with the confidence
that Red Hat product experts have validated the solution so that
implementations begin with a solid foundation." In order to
establish an automated security testing process, Red Hat is
exploring the use of SCAP profiles to evaluate RHEL baselines/AMIs
before public cloud providers release them to their customer sets.
<i><u>This in no way reflects a statement of direction for Red
Hat, but rather transparency as we evaluate best practices to
evaluate RHEL platforms</u></i>.<br>
<br>
As always, updated RPMs are now available in the EPEL repository
[1]. Download instructions are available on the wiki:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://fedorahosted.org/scap-security-guide/wiki/downloads">https://fedorahosted.org/scap-security-guide/wiki/downloads</a><br>
<br>
For those needing ZIP compressed files:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/scap-security-guide/epel-6/ZIPs/">http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/scap-security-guide/epel-6/ZIPs/</a><br>
<br>
Please direct comments, issues, and general communications to the
SSG mailing list:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/scap-security-guide">https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/scap-security-guide</a><br>
<br>
[1] <i>Side note: In my testing, I had to 'yum clean all' before
the updated RPM was available via 'yum update'</i><br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
A full listing of patches is provided below:<br>
<blockquote type="cite">$ git log --oneline --after={2013-06-26}
--no-merges<br>
727d320 accounts_password_pam_cracklib_ocredit --
filename->filepath Updated OVAL to utilize filepath tag<br>
578c9fe accounts_password_pam_cracklib_lcredit --
filename->filepath update Updated OVAL to filepath tag<br>
0ef2176 accounts_password_pam_cracklib_ucredit - filename ->
filepath update Updating filename -> filepath<br>
fc1234c [ticket 427] bugfix - Update sshd_idle_timeout * STIG
required value of 900 (15min), values only went to 10min
(updated sshd_idle_timeout_value within STIG profile, ad<br>
084b0e7 Comment didn't match check<br>
f3b3bc4 [Fedora] Use correct file paths in
scap-security-guide(8) manual page (RH BZ#1018905, c#10)<br>
f907c1c [Fedora] Apply further changes motivated by
scap-security-guide Fedora RPM review request (RH BZ#1018905,
c#8)<br>
16e8b1f Deleting wrongly named check<br>
a89548d The name of the check did not reflect its content.<br>
efd4e06 [Fedora] Fixes for scap-security-guide Fedora RPM review
request (RH BZ#1018905)<br>
0f8425e [Fedora] Introduce SSG manual page. Fix previous
changelog date typo. Create 0.1-2 version<br>
d478d86 [Fedora] Remove percent sign from Fedora spec's
changelog to silence rpmlint warning<br>
86cf0fe [Fedora] Convert RHEL6 'Restrict Root Logins' section's
rules to Fedora<br>
e6a863a Fix couple of typos in the text of 'Restrict Root
Logins' document<br>
aa38411 Made some corrections to the XSLT transforms to remedy
missing fields, replaced PNG files with different images, added
background colors and borders to code and header<br>
3633243 New XCCDF Profile: Red Hat Certified Cloud Provider
(rht-ccp) - Testing profile for Red Hat's CCP program (standards
for Red Hat's certified cloud providers)<br>
cc82cd1 corrected the activate logrotate rule<br>
81f2ad8 additional OVAL testing<br>
d7fbe82 [Fedora] Convert four RHEL6 rules from 'Set Password
Expiration Parameters' section to Fedora<br>
a7da684 Introduce 'Accounts and Access Control Section'. Convert
four RHEL-6 rules from its 'Verify Proper Storage' subsection to
Fedora<br>
3da6a96 Introduce new RPM versioning scheme for RHEL6 / JBossEAP
content<br>
f6d5566 images for guide presentation<br>
a2b1a21 editing on ntp section prose<br>
559f4b3 editing on prose for mounting,partitioning,permissions<br>
13a5ca6 editing on prose text for software integrity/updating<br>
ddca85f use new guide transform in Makefile, fixed filename
mistake<br>
5f730f3 new transform to create custom HTML guide<br>
05381fb Correcting a simple typo (/etc/modprob.d instead of the
correct path /etc/modprobe.d)<br>
61ade64 Changed the gconf_gnome_screensaver_idle_delay check to
pass on values less than or equal to those in the profile. This
allows users to reduce the time until the scree<br>
94b1ecd OVAL testing<br>
37de67c Fedora spec - replace hard-wired paths with macros.
Preserve attributes when copying files.<br>
af11d6a [Fedora] New rpm versioning scheme - set proper name of
the build directory
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://lists.fedorahosted.org/pipermail/scap-security-guide/2013-October/004205.html">https://lists.fedorahosted.org/pipermail/scap-security-guide/2013-October/004205.html</a><br>
42ec0c8 [bugfix] Updated RPM spec file Pushing Jan Lieskovsky's
patches. Thread @
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://lists.fedorahosted.org/pipermail/scap-security-guide/2013-October/004195.html">https://lists.fedorahosted.org/pipermail/scap-security-guide/2013-October/004195.html</a><br>
745b173 Fixed two typos in
RHEL6/input/checks/file_ownership_binary_dirs.xml. The first was
inside a comment and said the check was for /lib when really it
was for /bin. The s<br>
a9580d3 Added checks for 'hard' or '-' for checks in
/etc/security/limits.conf<br>
321abf2 [bugfix] Updated RPM spec file<br>
c148607 XCCDF Profile Cleanup, take 2 (now with correct patch)
.... might help if I included the correct patch! - Forgot that
test profile needed by make-eval (thanks, jeff!<br>
666565b OVAL signoff auditd_data_retention_action_mail_acct<br>
a3a7c7e updated OVAL template: template_sysctl - Prior edition
of sysctl template only checked runtime configuration, added
checks for /etc/sysctl.conf - OVAL signoff<br>
122b80e OVAL signoff: accounts_password_pam_cracklib_retry -
filepath update - XCCDF naming update - Fixed variable name in
USGCB profile<br>
7450369 New OVAL: file_permissions_binary_dirs - net-new OVAL,
though based off file_permissions_libary* - Added remediation
script - Mapped XCCDF to OVAL - OVAL signoff<br>
620110f OVAL signoff: file_permissions_library_dirs Light OVAL
cleanup & signoff<br>
d3a7e63 Updated kernel_module_disabled OVAL template - RHEL6
supports *both* /etc/modprobe.conf and /etc/modprob.d, updated
check to scan via OR operator - Frank Caviggia call<br>
49993eb new remediation: file_permissions_library_dirs<br>
273fca2 OVAL signoff: accounts_dangerous_path_for_root<br>
c522957 [Fedora] Introduce better rpm versioning scheme<br>
28b1f22 Updated and tested root path checks<br>
b3a67cb Introduce FEDORA directory skeleton and 'common' profile
having two gpgcheck scans<br>
1e0e85d [bugfix] Invalid dates in RHEL6 RPM spec file When
testing the fedora RPM system, errors were thrown regarding
invalidat dates in the RHEL6 RPM spec file. Interestingl<br>
cac6900 [bugfix] Updated XCCDF profile names<br>
9990a96 Reference tag was in wrong location, so I moved it to
the metadata section as required.<br>
11c277e OVAL signoff for multiple sysctl_net_ipv4 checks<br>
657347f OVAL signoff for sysctl_kernel_exec_shield<br>
52ea785 OVAL signoff for sysctl_kernel_randomize_va_space<br>
7348645 OVAL signoff file_permissions_etc_group<br>
e932bdc OVAL signoff file_groupowner_etc_group<br>
25e5350 OVAL signoff file_groupowner_etc_passwd<br>
ba5f816 added testrefs to a number of OVAL checks<br>
d8373be corrected naming mismatch issues picked up by
verify-input-sanity<br>
8baa4a0 OVAL signoff file_groupowner_etc_gshadow
[user@redhat-thing-1 checks]$ ls -lL /etc/gshadow ----------. 1
root root 723 Sep 16 12:58 /etc/gshadow [user@redhat-thing-1 c<br>
d391ec4 OVAL signoff: file_groupowner_etc_shadow<br>
712bb19 OVAL signoff no_empty_passwords [user@redhat-thing-1
checks]$ grep nullok /etc/pam.d/system-auth [user@redhat-thing-1
checks]$ ./testcheck.py no_empty_passwords.xml Ev<br>
3836f91 OVAL/XCCDF namings for no_shelllogin_for_systemaccounts<br>
405362d OVAL signoff for accounts_password_all_shadowed TESTING:
[user@redhat-thing-1 checks]$ awk -F: '($2 != "x") {print}'
/etc/passwd [user@redhat-thing-1 checks]$ awk -F: <br>
de01914 OVAL signoff for
accounts_no_shelllogin_for_systemaccounts OVAL signoff:
accounts_no_shelllogin_for_systemaccounts<br>
8e56c69 Updated XCCDF/OVAL namings<br>
16b291f Updated accounts_password_minlen_login_defs -
XCCDF/OVAL namings<br>
ef20faf OVAL signoff + remediation: no_empty_passwords -
OVAL/XCCDF namings - OVAL signoff - filename -> filepath -
Remediation<br>
be29655 Added remediation for disable_users_coredumps -
OVAL/XCCDF naming - Added remediation<br>
88470cb Added remediation for umask_for_daemons - OVAL/XCCDF
namings - Added remediation script<br>
0fcd5ad [ticket 390] Updated ensure_redhat_gpgkey_installed -
XCCDF/OVAL naming matchings - OVAL signoff<br>
8f6f2d9 [ticket 393] Updated securetty_root_login_console_only
- Updated XCCDF/OVAL namings - filename ->filepath - Added
remediation<br>
faa8e01 OVAL signoff + remediation:
auditd_data_retention_admin_space_left_action - OVAL signoff -
Updated XCCDF/OVAL namings - Remediation script<br>
d8e077e New remediation template: create_kernel_module_disabled
Created bash remediation template for kernel_module_disabled
checks<br>
5eccd26 Updated kernel module naming schemes - Unified naming
between XCCDF and OVAL namings for kernel module checks<br>
f36af0a Updated sysctl templates - Old sysctl XCCDF names
varied from "set_sysctl," "disable_sysctl" to "sysctl_*",
standardized on "sysctl_*" - This change ensures that al<br>
524f623 accounts_* remediation update Needed to append filename
after echo statement<br>
f3f6dce OVAL signoff + remediation: require_singleuser_auth -
Updated OVAL to match XCCDF namings - Created remediation -
Resignoff on OVAL due to changes<br>
bb49f29 OVAL signoff + remediation: disable_interactive_boot -
Updated OVAL namings to match XCCDF - OVAL signoff (the old
regex was broke) - Added remediation<br>
78b45af Added remediation: set_sysctl_kernel_dmesg_restrict
From template<br>
c42cf7b Added Remediation: set_sysctl_fs_suid_dumpable Built
from template<br>
59d383a OVAL signoff + remediation:
accounts_password_warn_age_login_defs - OVAL signoff - Added
remediation<br>
bce5a06 Updated filepaths Just noticed these two were using
/etc/sshd... updated!<br>
72e6eb2 Added remediation: accounts_maximum_age_login_defs<br>
f7c11da Added Remediation for accounts_minimum_age_login_defs
Based off prior template<br>
89d1d6d OVAL signoff + remediation:
accounts_password_minlen_login_defs - Old OVAL was checking
system-auth, XCCDF calls /etc/login.defs - OVAL signoff -
Added remediation<br>
00dced9 XCCDF & OVAL signoff for file_ownership_library_dirs
+ remediation - The XCCDF was not clear that users should scan
the /lib/modules directory, adjusted wording - XC<br>
ce7ab3d More testrefs, this time for mount_option_tmp checks<br>
184dba8 Adding testrefs to mount_option_dev_shm_* checks, all
appear to function correctly.<br>
7031613 RHEL6 verify-input-sanity.py: Replace
lxml.etree.XMLSyntaxError traceback with path to problematic
XCCDF file. OpenStack ditto. RHEVM3 ditto.<br>
6d8ecc4 grub.conf is not guaranteed to be in /boot/grub if the
system is using EFI, so I added a test for its default location
in /boot/efi/EFI/redhat<br>
61c9e4e New check uses /etc/mtab and mount partition check to
look for bind mount on /var/tmp<br>
380379b Added test checks for set of partition checks.<br>
5c30726 [bugfix] Updated APIPA addresses as identified by David
Smith Dave noted that some of the APIPA addresses were typod as
169.245.0.0, vs correct 169.254.0.0.<br>
841ba81 remediation + OVAL for sshd_enable_warning_banner -
Updated OVAL namings to match XCCDF - filename --> filepath -
added remediation<br>
05e27cb [bugfix] sshd_set_idle_timeout.xml -->
sshd_set_idle_timeout.sh (remediation script)<br>
1da38d0 remediation + OVAL for sshd_disable_empty_passwords -
Updated OVAL naming to match XCCDF - filename --> filepath -
Added remediation<br>
5b9b395 remediation + OVAL for sshd_set_idle_timeout - Updated
OVAL ID & filename to match XCCDF - filename --> filepath
OVAL - Added remediation<br>
d7e7971 OVAL + remediation: sshd_do_not_permit_user_env -
Updated OVAL ID and filename to match XCCDF - filename ->
filepath OVAL - Added remediation<br>
b0ab8e6 OVAL + remediation: disable_host_auth - Updated OVAL ID
and filename to match XCCDF - filename --> filepath - Added
remediation<br>
57658ac OVAL + remediation for sshd_disable_root_login - Updated
OVAL file & id to match XCCDF - filename --> filepath -
Added remediation<br>
23fc5f6 OVAL + remediation for sshd_set_keepalive - Updated OVAL
names to match XCCDF - filename --> filepath - Added
remediation<br>
2a1bbe7 Updated sshd_disable_rhosts - Renamed OVAL check to
match XCCDF name - filename -> filepath - Added remediation<br>
e293c7b New remediation: sshd_use_approved_ciphers<br>
a99d775 sshd_use_approved_ciphers OVAL: filename -> filepath<br>
6153f07 Update to network_disable_zeroconf OVAL - Updated OVAL
name to match XCCDF name - filename --> filepath in OVAL -
Added remediation<br>
fd60b86 umask_for_daemons: filename -> filepath & updated
signoff [shawn@rhel6 checks]$ var_umask_for_daemons=027 ; export
var_umask_for_daemons ; ./testcheck.py umask_for_dae<br>
52fbe2d new OVAL check for kernel.dmesg_restrict<br>
a4c3da8 new rule for restricting access to dmesg<br>
731441f adjustment to combinechecks.py duplicate ID text<br>
251f452 removed HOWTO text for openssl<br>
1253b6e [bugfix] Updated selinux_bootloader_notdisabled per
ticket 391<br>
eb4d177 [bugfix] Updated regex+filepath for umask_for_daemons -
Wrong filepath - Broke regex - Added signoff<br>
b034d93 Updated STIG refine values for ucredit, ocredit, lcredit<br>
297ffb2 OVAL signoff for template_permissions<br>
53faca6 [bugfix] oval/checks/templates/output/.gitignore updated
to ignore .sh files<br>
ccd8c14 OVAL testing template_package_removed<br>
92a6939 OVAL testing for template_kernel_module_disabled<br>
285b70d template_OVAL_package_installed testing + bash
remediations - Testing of OVAL for
template_OVAL_package_installed - Adding of associated bash
scripts<br>
6ebc93f Updated NIST profile ID<br>
90f3331 added "checks" as a dependency for tables<br>
4c76e49 Tiny patch to correct typo, it's -S stime, not -S time.<br>
156d71a Prose changes and copy editing<br>
8612b07 added interrogatory phrase to OCIL questions<br>
ee53c82 Another batch of tested checks. Includes some checks
that had their comments expanded or were renamed from random
values.<br>
cca02fb Check will return list of all partitions without nodev
instead of a complete list of all partitions and the return
value of true/false will accurately reflect passing <br>
3c2ddb9 improved table to indicate when OVAL checks have been
tested<br>
92dc471 made CSS adjustments to make <pre> wrap<br>
b5c35b6 Existing check was screwed up (title was wrong, comments
were wrong, etc.) and was easily replaced by a templated check<br>
2f92bb8 Improbably, the input line for UDP is $UDPServerRun, not
$InputUDPServerRun. Also, the check forgot to include the port
number, so it always gave a false positive.<br>
eeec622 Original check assumed that sha512 would always be the
first option<br>
95c8805 Guide refers to :omrelp: as a valid remote logging
option, so I've updated the check to accept that format as well<br>
6d40bcb Making SSH checks uniform and hopefully adding case
insensitive matches properly<br>
8d2b031 Adding reference tags to show which checks I've tested.
Some very slight whitespace corrections were made as well.<br>
04a0fb6 [bugfix] Updated XCCDF rule name of
set_sysctl_ipv6_default_accept_redirects in profiles<br>
477cf7d Check needs to be reversed. As is, if you specified 10
as the maximum number of concurrent logins, it would allow 20.<br>
499d1ca Small patch to replace autogenerated test, state, and
object ids with human readable ones (now with 80 character line
breaks)<br>
0bea4ab moved namespace assignment into shorthand2xccdf.xslt
transform<br>
464b876 added comment, added calls to insert Profiles<br>
2a62395 removing calls to now-unnecessary transforms<br>
61da0f5 Adding new OVAL check that will parse /etc/passwd,
looking for system accounts with real login shells (not
/sbin/nologin, /sbin/halt, /sbin/shutdown, or /bin/sync)<br>
fc064ce renaming namespace addition file, as part of refactoring<br>
9c366bb removing namespaces from no-namespace fragments,
transforms<br>
28630df refactoring of XCCDF shorthand expansion and namespace
assignments<br>
b22713b Added rule for disabling interface use of IPv6<br>
57464ba Additional option for number of max concurrent logins<br>
19be81c Added rule regarding anonymous NFS connections<br>
0986a65 modified transform to include new profile<br>
65b0a84 added example of a custom profile<br>
92dd7a3 DHCP section referred to the wrong file location for
dhcpd.conf<br>
c351938 Last item in Avahi file feels like it's supposed to be a
Rule, not a Group<br>
c929fc5 It IS always,exit NEVER exit,always!<br>
996bf22 what?<br>
0b1ad85 Correct telnet service disabled checks<br>
53ae081 Audit test fix to match rest of checks, also fixed text
doc<br>
748b723 Corrected bash services template - Updated Makefile -
Removed incorrectly generated service enable scripts<br>
9ce1c3a Removing content of pattern match line, since it seems
to break OVAL. Also, updated id names to be real words, not
randomly generated values.<br>
8f89e00 removal of invalid state child element in world-writable
files test<br>
6699d5a removal of invalid state child element in /var/log/audit
ownership test<br>
ff9da0a new versions of unauth suid/sgid OVAL checks<br>
789e0c1 Added line to indicate test output file, to OVAL testing
script<br>
e24cf91 Created remediation template: create_services_enabled<br>
52a2e0b Removing unreferenced OVAL
file_ssh_host_keys_public_permissions.xml<br>
fd78bd7 Removing unreferenced
file_ssh_host_keys_private_permissions.xml Removing
unreferenced file_ssh_host_keys_private_permissions.xml<br>
a8b3a2b Updated selinux_all_devicefiles_labeled The check
enumeration of 'none exist' was depricated for 'none satisfy' as
of OVAL 5.3, reference: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://oval.mitre.org/la">http://oval.mitre.org/la</a><br>
32652f9 Added OVAL mapping to world_writeable_files Mapped OVAL
file_permissions_unauthorized_world_writable to XCCDF
world_writeable_files<br>
2a027a4 Corrected naming of
set_sysctl_ipv6_default_accept_redirects Updated naming of
XCCDF rule "set_sysctl_ipv6_default_accept_redirects" to
"set_sysctl_net_ipv6_default_<br>
e2a0203 Added OVAL + remediation for
sysctl_net_ipv6_conf_default_accept_ra Generated from
templates<br>
a46ca9b Created OVAL + remediation for
sysctl_net_ipv6_conf_default_accept_redirects Created using
templates<br>
73f5ddc removal of invalid state child element in world-writable
files test pushing for jeff blank via
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://lists.fedorahosted.org/pipermail/scap-security-guide/2013-July/0">https://lists.fedorahosted.org/pipermail/scap-security-guide/2013-July/0</a><br>
fe7008e removal of invalid state child element in /var/log/audit
ownership test pushing for jeff blank per
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://lists.fedorahosted.org/pipermail/scap-security-guide/2013-Ju">https://lists.fedorahosted.org/pipermail/scap-security-guide/2013-Ju</a><br>
76d18ba Changes to SSHD Ciphers<br>
7bcca7b Removing '\' from audit rule lines to prevent confusion.<br>
3fd0b9f Updated RPM version to 0.1-12<br>
91c0a64 Added the checks for
accounts_passwords_pam_fail_interval and
accounts_passwords_pam_faillock_unlock_time as there was only
the check for accounts_passwords_pam_faillo<br>
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