On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 11:33 AM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm so sorry. This IS 2.8.1 code. My post says v1.7 and 1.8, but I meant v
> 2.7 and 2.8.
>

I'm not able to reproduce this, could you provide your entire local_rules.xml?

> On Friday, December 12, 2014 9:59:34 AM UTC-6, dan (ddpbsd) wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 10:43 AM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > I recently migrated our ossec server to new hardware, and at the same
>> > time
>> > upgraded from v 1.7 to 1.8. Unfortunately ossec-analysisd kept
>> > segfaulting
>> > in the new environment. It's taken me a couple of weeks to narrow it
>> > down,
>> > and it seems to be consistently caused by the following rule from my
>> > local_rules.xml (downgrade of a base rule from level 7 to level 5):
>> >
>> >   <rule id="533" level="5" overwrite="yes">
>> >     <if_sid>530</if_sid>
>> >     <match>ossec: output: 'netstat -tan</match>
>> >     <check_diff />
>> >     <description>Listened ports status (netstat) changed (new port
>> > opened or
>> > closed).</description>
>> >   </rule>
>> >
>> > This rule has been running under v1.7 in our old environment for over a
>> > year. For now, I've just commented out this rule and all is good, but I
>> > thought it might be helpful to the community if we figure out what's
>> > going
>> > on - is it a bug, or some boneheaded misconfiguration on my part. I'm
>> > happy
>> > to provide more detail if needed.
>> >
>> > Current environment is Amazon AWS VPC. All servers are running Amazon
>> > Linux
>> > 64-bit AMI's (based on RHEL/CentOS).
>> > [root@smithers ossec]# uname -a
>> > Linux smithers 3.14.23-22.44.amzn1.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Nov 11 23:07:48 UTC
>> > 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>> >
>> > Initially I tried to migrate everything that was relevant (client.keys,
>> > ossec.conf, local_rules.xml, rids files, etc). But with constant
>> > crashes, I
>> > backed everything out and used the following basic process to narrow
>> > down
>> > what was happening:
>> >
>> > 1) I installed v1.8 server, and ran the default install with no agents
>> > for
>> > about 24 hours. All good.
>> > 2) Added one agent (fresh install, new key, no custom rules), ran for 24
>> > hours. All good.
>> > 3) Added remaining 7 agents (fresh install, new key, no custom rules),
>> > ran
>> > for 24 hours. All good.
>> > 4) Added my local_rules.xml, analysisd segfaulted within a few minutes.
>> > 5) Removed local_rules.xml, ran for 24 hours with no problems.
>> > 6) Added local_rules.xml back, analysisd segfaulted after a few minutes.
>> > 7) Removed local_rules.xml. Started adding one rule at a time, and
>> > running
>> > for 6 - 12 hours with each new rule.
>> > 8) The above rule seems to consistently be the problem. HOWEVER, since
>> > it
>> > can take anywhere from a few minutes to a few hours (up to 5) for the
>> > segfault to occur, it is possible the above rule is not the problem.
>> >
>> > I did try running analysisd with gdb to get some more information, but
>> > I'm
>> > not confident that I got all the ossec processes started correctly when
>> > I
>> > did it. I can post all the output from that run if someone wants it.
>> >
>> > Here is an example of the output in /var/log/messages:
>> >
>> > Dec  9 12:02:03 smithers kernel: [513311.628392] ossec-analysisd[12455]:
>> > segfault at 0 ip           (null) sp 00007fff152c88f8 error 14 in
>> > ossec-analysisd[400000+65000]
>> >
>> > Following the segfault, these are the ossec processes running (although
>> > sometimes syscheckd and/or monitord is not running):
>> >
>> > [root@smithers ossec]# ps -ef | grep ossec
>> > ossecm   12447     1  0 09:58 ?        00:00:00
>> > /var/ossec/bin/ossec-maild
>> > root     12451     1  0 09:58 ?        00:00:00
>> > /var/ossec/bin/ossec-execd
>> > root     12470     1  0 09:58 ?        00:00:03
>> > /var/ossec/bin/ossec-syscheckd
>> > ossec    12473     1  0 09:58 ?        00:00:00
>> > /var/ossec/bin/ossec-monitord
>> > root     13327 13302  0 13:12 pts/0    00:00:00 grep ossec
>> >
>> > Here is the ossec.log from start to finish (this time it took a couple
>> > of
>> > hours for the segfault to occur):
>> >
>> > [root@smithers ossec]# tail -f logs/ossec.log
>> > 2014/12/09 09:58:28 ossec-testrule: INFO: Reading local decoder file.
>> [snip]
>> > 2014/12/09 12:28:39 ossec-monitord: socketerr (not available).
>> > 2014/12/09 12:28:39 ossec-monitord(1224): ERROR: Error sending message
>> > to
>> > queue.
>> >
>> > Let me know if anything else would be helpful.
>> >
>>
>> I'm not seeing this issue on post 2.8.1 code, any chance you can
>> upgrade to something remotely recent?
>>
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