What active response triggers are you currently using? Certain SIDs?
Which ones are triggering the AR?

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 3:12 AM, WebWusel <[email protected]> wrote:
> Okay,
>
> here's what happened last night.
>
> There was a rule in the forward chain "ACCEPT all from all" and the
> default policy for the input chain was DROP. So I was able to reach
> the virtual Hosts on this machine, but couldnt connect to the host
> anyhow. The only way to fix the system was to connect via my KVM over
> IP.
>
> Again, this never happened before I used OSSEC, so I fear, it's caused
> by OSSEC in some strange way. The Logfiles are clean, there's nothing
> suspect inside but I havent had a look at the syslog yet.
>
> For Information what system we talking about:
>
> Two Servers, lets say SrvA and SrvB. Both are holding two DRBD Drives
> while normally SrvA is Holding "R0" and SrvB is holding "R1". They're
> talking via an internal Network, connected via eth1 to each other with
> heartbeat. Both running OpenVZ with about 4 virtual machines
> (containers) on each.
>
> If SrvA is invisible for SrvB for two minutes, SrvB has to assume SrvA
> is dead and has then to mount the R0 Partition and start all the
> virtual hosts on it and visa versa.
>
> On both servers I have installed OSSEC. While SrvB has a total Traffic
> (to the real world) of about 16 Gig a day, SrvA has about 13 Gig a day
> but no email Server on it. So OSSEC is really relaxed on SrvA but very
> busy at SrvB.
>
> So, the default setting DROP for the Input Chain has effect to all
> network-devices. This causes Heartbeat to take over all ressources
> from SrvA to SrvB and mount the DRBD-Partitions. SrvA is also not
> seeing SrvB anymore and does the same with it's ressources. We have a
> split-brain situation.
>
> I also have two other servers running in the same mode as SrvA and
> SrvB, also installed OSSEC and no problems so far. But these servers
> have much less stress as the first cluster has.
>
> Can it be, that there's a security leak in OSSEC?
>
> I finnally run a rkhunter and chkrootkit on my servers but couldn't
> find any thing suspect.
>
> I would like to use OSSEC but I am helpless at the moment. For the
> next three days I leave OSSEC stopped on SrvB to see, if any strange
> things appear again.
>
> Would be glad for any hint!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Oskar
>
>

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