[ossec-list] Re: ossec-rootcheck found hidden ports -- how can I verify if this is a false positive or not?

2007-09-17 Thread David Vasil
Peter M. Abraham wrote: Greetings Dave: Did you miss seeing 3306/tcp open mysql MySQL 5.0.45-community-log 5001/tcp open apc-agent APC PowerChute agent 5432/tcp open postgresql PostgreSQL DB 8009/tcp open ajp13? 8080/tcp open http Apache httpd 8443/tcp open http

[ossec-list] Re: ossec-rootcheck found hidden ports -- how can I verify if this is a false positive or not?

2007-09-10 Thread Jason Little
Administrator Mint Inc -Original Message- From: ossec-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daniel Cid Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2007 8:54 PM To: ossec-list@googlegroups.com Subject: [ossec-list] Re: ossec-rootcheck found hidden ports -- how can I verify

[ossec-list] Re: ossec-rootcheck found hidden ports -- how can I verify if this is a false positive or not?

2007-09-09 Thread Ulises Cuñé
, September 06, 2007 3:07 PM To: ossec-list Subject: [ossec-list] Re: ossec-rootcheck found hidden ports -- how can I verify if this is a false positive or not? Greetings Steve: I finally got around to installing the latest nmap and checking nmap. PORT STATE SERVICEVERSION 21/tcp open ftp

[ossec-list] Re: ossec-rootcheck found hidden ports -- how can I verify if this is a false positive or not?

2007-08-28 Thread Peter M. Abraham
Greetings: The server in question is CentOS 4, and rkhunter and chkrootkit do not report any issues. Thank you.

[ossec-list] Re: ossec-rootcheck found hidden ports -- how can I verify if this is a false positive or not?

2007-08-28 Thread Steve West
Peter M. Abraham wrote: Greetings: The server in question is CentOS 4, and rkhunter and chkrootkit do not report any issues. Thank you. Have you tried to do a nmap scan of the system from another workstation? nmap should show you what open ports and then you can try to identify if

[ossec-list] Re: ossec-rootcheck found hidden ports -- how can I verify if this is a false positive or not?

2007-08-27 Thread Peter M. Abraham
Greetings: I replaced the netstat on the server (actually updated net-tools which was out dated), rpm -V net-tools-1.60-37.EL4.9 Provides no output for which I understand means the package verified ok. Yet, ossec-rootcheck still shows hidden ports as listed in my first post. strings

[ossec-list] Re: ossec-rootcheck found hidden ports -- how can I verify if this is a false positive or not?

2007-08-27 Thread Jeff Schroeder
On Aug 27, 11:11 am, Peter M. Abraham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings: I replaced the netstat on the server (actually updated net-tools which was out dated), rpm -V net-tools-1.60-37.EL4.9 Provides no output for which I understand means the package verified ok. You realize that even

[ossec-list] Re: ossec-rootcheck found hidden ports -- how can I verify if this is a false positive or not?

2007-08-27 Thread David Williams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 In my previous life, we had several busy servers and they would often alert like this because of temporary port usage. I believed the alert was because OSSEC tried to bind to a port, could not then ran netstat and did not see the port in

[ossec-list] Re: ossec-rootcheck found hidden ports -- how can I verify if this is a false positive or not?

2007-08-27 Thread Daniel Cid
Hi David, In addition to what you mentioned, if you are using Linux, it can also be caused by a bug in an application that is binding to a TCP port, but not listening on it. For some weird reason, Linux does not report these ports on netstat... More info here: http://www.ossec.net/dcid/?p=87