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add message description in patterns
author carl
date Tue, 18 Sep 2007 09:54:22 -0700
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<reference>
    <title>@PACKAGE@</title>
    <partintro>
        <title>Packages</title>
        <para>The various source and binary packages are available at <ulink
        url="http://www.five-ten-sg.com/@PACKAGE@/packages/">http://www.five-ten-sg.com/@PACKAGE@/packages/</ulink>
        The most recent documentation is available at <ulink
        url="http://www.five-ten-sg.com/@PACKAGE@/">http://www.five-ten-sg.com/@PACKAGE@/</ulink>
        </para>
    </partintro>

    <refentry id="@PACKAGE@.1">
        <refentryinfo>
            <date>2007-09-09</date>
        </refentryinfo>

        <refmeta>
            <refentrytitle>@PACKAGE@</refentrytitle>
            <manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
            <refmiscinfo>@PACKAGE@ @VERSION@</refmiscinfo>
        </refmeta>

        <refnamediv id='name.1'>
            <refname>@PACKAGE@</refname>
            <refpurpose>a simple adaptive firewall</refpurpose>
        </refnamediv>

        <refsynopsisdiv id='synopsis.1'>
            <title>Synopsis</title>
            <cmdsynopsis>
                <command>@PACKAGE@</command>
                <arg><option>-c</option></arg>
                <arg><option>-d <replaceable class="parameter">n</replaceable></option></arg>
            </cmdsynopsis>
        </refsynopsisdiv>

        <refsect1 id='description.1'>
            <title>Description</title>

            <para><command>@PACKAGE@</command> is a simple adaptive firewall.  It
            maintains the INPUT chain of the <citerefentry>
            <refentrytitle>iptables</refentrytitle> <manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
            </citerefentry> firewall set based on syslog entries.  These syslog
            entries are typically generated by your hardware firewall, but they
            could come from any source.  Any syslog entry that contains a host name
            or ip address can be used as input to this package.</para>

            <para>The <citerefentry> <refentrytitle>@PACKAGE@.conf</refentrytitle>
            <manvolnum>5</manvolnum> </citerefentry> file specifies the syslog files
            to be monitored, and the regular expressions (<citerefentry>
            <refentrytitle>regex</refentrytitle> <manvolnum>7</manvolnum>
            </citerefentry>) to be applied to new lines in those files.  Each
            regular expression needs an index to specify the matching substring that
            contains either an ip address or host name, and a bucket count which is
            added to the leaky bucket for that ip address when a matching line is
            read from that syslog file.</para>

            <para>Each ip address has an associated leaky bucket, which leaks one
            token per second.  Once the bucket contains more than a configurable
            threshold number of tokens, that ip address is added to the INPUT chain
            with a DROP target.  When the bucket is drained to zero, that ip address
            is removed from the INPUT chain.</para>

            <para>The discussion has focused on syslog files, but any ascii text
            file can be used, so long as some other process appends lines to that
            file, and those lines containing hostname or ip addresses can be matched
            with some regular expression.</para>

            <para>Considering syslog files in particular, these are normally rotated
            via logrotate.  <command>@PACKAGE@</command> properly detects and
            handles this case by closing the old file, and reopening the newly
            created file.</para>
        </refsect1>

        <refsect1 id='options.1'>
            <title>Options</title>
            <variablelist>
                <varlistentry>
                    <term>-c</term>
                    <listitem>
                        <para>
                            Load the configuration file, print a cannonical form
                            of the configuration on stdout, and exit.
                       </para>
                   </listitem>
                </varlistentry>
                <varlistentry>
                    <term>-d <replaceable class="parameter">n</replaceable></term>
                    <listitem>
                        <para>
                            Set the debug level to <replaceable class="parameter">n</replaceable>.
                        </para>
                    </listitem>
                </varlistentry>
            </variablelist>
        </refsect1>

        <refsect1 id='usage.1'>
            <title>Usage</title>
            <para><command>@PACKAGE@</command> -d 2</para>
        </refsect1>

        <refsect1 id='configuration.1'>
            <title>Configuration</title>
            <para>
                The configuration file is documented in <citerefentry>
                <refentrytitle>@PACKAGE@.conf</refentrytitle> <manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
                </citerefentry>.  Any change to the config file will cause it to be
                reloaded within three minutes.
            </para>
        </refsect1>

        <refsect1 id='todo.1'>
            <title>TODO</title>
            <para>
                The following ideas are under consideration.
            </para>
            <para>
                Add a configuration option for the iptables table name in the
                pattern statement. This implies handling multiple tables, so each
                table needs its own map of ip addresses and bucket values.
            </para>
        </refsect1>

        <refsect1 id='copyright.1'>
            <title>Copyright</title>
            <para>
                Copyright (C) 2007 by 510 Software Group &lt;carl@five-ten-sg.com&gt;
            </para>
            <para>
                This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
                under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
                Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option) any
                later version.
            </para>
            <para>
                You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
                with this program; see the file COPYING.  If not, please write to the
                Free Software Foundation, 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
            </para>
        </refsect1>

        <refsect1 id='version.1'>
            <title>CVS Version</title>
            <para>
                $Id$
            </para>
        </refsect1>
    </refentry>


    <refentry id="@PACKAGE@.conf.5">
        <refentryinfo>
            <date>2007-09-09</date>
        </refentryinfo>

        <refmeta>
            <refentrytitle>@PACKAGE@.conf</refentrytitle>
            <manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
            <refmiscinfo>@PACKAGE@ @VERSION@</refmiscinfo>
        </refmeta>

        <refnamediv id='name.5'>
            <refname>@PACKAGE@.conf</refname>
            <refpurpose>configuration file for @PACKAGE@</refpurpose>
        </refnamediv>

        <refsynopsisdiv id='synopsis.5'>
            <title>Synopsis</title>
            <cmdsynopsis>
                <command>@PACKAGE@.conf</command>
            </cmdsynopsis>
        </refsynopsisdiv>

        <refsect1 id='description.5'>
            <title>Description</title>
            <para>The <command>@PACKAGE@.conf</command> configuration file is
            specified by this partial bnf description. The entire config file
            is case sensitive. All the keywords are lower case.
            </para>

            <literallayout class="monospaced"><![CDATA[
CONFIG    := {THRESHOLD | ADD-CMD | REM-CMD | IGNORE | FILE}+
THRESHOLD := "threshold" THRESHOLD-INTEGER-VALUE ";"
ADD-CMD   := "add_command" IPT-CMD ";"
REM-CMD   := "remove_command" IPT-CMD ";"
IGNORE    := "ignore" "{" IG-SINGLE+ "};"
IG-SINGLE := IP-ADDRESS "/" CIDR-BITS ";"
FILE      := "file" FILENAME "{" PATTERN+ "};"
PATTERN   := "pattern" REGULAR-EXPRESSION "{" {INDEX | BUCKET | MESSAGE}+ "};"
INDEX     := "index" REGEX-INTEGER-VALUE ";"
BUCKET    := "bucket" BUCKET-ADD-INTEGER-VALUE ";"
MESSAGE   := "message" REASON ";"
REASON    := string to appear in syslog messages
IPT-CMD   := string containing exactly one %s replacement token for
             the ip address]]></literallayout>
        </refsect1>

        <refsect1 id='sample.5'>
            <title>Sample</title>
            <literallayout class="monospaced"><![CDATA[
threshold 550;

add_command    "/sbin/iptables -I INPUT --src %s --jump DROP";
remove_command "/sbin/iptables -D INPUT --src %s --jump DROP";

ignore {
    127.0.0.0/8;        // localhost
};

file "/var/log/cisco.log" {
    pattern "Internet_Firewall denied (tcp|udp) ([^(]*)" {
        index 2;    // zero based
        bucket 200;
        message "cisco firewall blocked packet";
    };
};

file "/var/log/secure" {
    pattern "sshd.*Failed password .* from ::ffff:(.*) port" {
        index 1;    // zero based
        bucket 400;
        message "ssh failed password";
    };
    pattern "sshd.*Failed password .* from (.*) port" {
        index 1;    // zero based
        bucket 400;
        message "ssh failed password";
    };
};

file "/var/log/httpd/access_log" {
    pattern "(.*) - - .* /cgi-bin" {
        index 1;    // zero based
        bucket 400;
        message "apache cgi-bin reference";
    };
    pattern "(.*) - - .*/index2.php" {
        index 1;    // zero based
        bucket 400;
        message "apache index2.php reference";
    };
    pattern "(.*) - - .*/main.php" {
        index 1;    // zero based
        bucket 400;
        message "apache main.php reference";
    };
};

file "/var/log/maillog" {
    pattern "lost input channel from .* \[(.*)\] .* after mail" {
        index 1;    // zero based
        bucket 200;
        message "sendmail spammer dropping connection";
    };
};

file "/var/log/messages" {
    pattern "sshd.pam_unix.*authentication failure.*rhost=(.*) user=" {
        index 1;    // zero based
        bucket 300;
        message "ssh failed password";
    };
    pattern "sshd.pam_unix.*authentication failure.*rhost=(.*)$" {
        index 1;    // zero based
        bucket 300;
        message "ssh failed password";
    };
};]]></literallayout>
        </refsect1>

        <refsect1 id='version.5'>
            <title>CVS Version</title>
            <para>
                $Id$
            </para>
        </refsect1>

    </refentry>
</reference>