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1psad-2.0.6 (03/24/2007):
2    - Better integration with fwsnort; psad signature match syslog messages
3      and email alerts now include the fwsnort rule number (for fwsnort
4      version 0.9.0 and greater) and chain information.
5    - Added the Snort bleeding-all.rules signature file from the Bleeding
6      Snort project (see http://www.bleedingsnort.com).
7    - Bugfix to allow interfaces that have IP aliases.
8    - Added uname, ifconfig, and syslog process information to --Dump-conf
9      output (this can help diagnose various runtime issues).
10    - Changed the --Lib-dir command line argument to --lib-dir, and added
11      --List (similar to iptables) to list the psad auto-blocking chain rules.
12    - Added psad.SlackBuild script contributed by pyllyukko for building psad
13      on Slackware systems.  It uses the Cipherdyne cd_rpmbuilder script to
14      first build and RPM, and then uses it to build a Slackware package.
15
16psad-2.0.5 (03/01/2007):
17    - Consolidated all configuration variables into the /etc/psad/psad.conf
18      file. The kmsgsd.conf, psadwatchd.conf, alert.conf, and fw_search.conf
19      files were all removed since the daemons just reference the psad.conf
20      now.  Updated install.pl to archive and remove these files if they
21      exist from a previous psad installation.
22    - Bugfix to account for iptables -nL output where the protocol may be
23      reported as "0" instead of "all".
24    - Added a function safe_malloc() for kmsgsd.c and psadwatchd.c to ensure
25      that a single API is used to perform a NULL check on heap-allocated
26      memory.
27    - Bugfix to ensure that the psad_ip_len signature matching keyword is
28      checked withing match_snort_ip_keywords() so that it applies to all
29      protocol packets.  This fixes a bug that would cause the "PSAD-CUSTOM
30      Nachi worm reconnaisannce" signature to fire on normal ICMP packet log
31      messages.
32    - Added version and Subversion file revision numbers to die and warn
33      messages that are written to /var/log/psad/errs/.  This helps when
34      trying to track these messages down to a specific file revisions when
35      psad is being upgraded on the local system.
36    - Added version and Subversion file revision numbers to --Dump-conf
37      output.
38    - Minor update to allow --fw-dump to be used on the command line without
39      also having to use the -D argument.
40    - Updated the default_log() function in the IPTables::Parse module to
41      handle iptables policies that were dumped with -v, such as when
42      --Dump-conf is used.
43
44psad-2.0.4 (01/27/2007):
45    - Added Snort rule matches to syslog alerts.  Multiple matches can be
46      controlled with new configuration variables in psad.conf:
47      ENABLE_SIG_MSG_SYSLOG, SIG_MSG_SYSLOG_THRESHOLD, and
48      SIG_SID_SYSLOG_THRESHOLD.
49    - Bugfix to include scanned UDP port ranges in syslog alerts.
50    - Bugfix to parse SEQ and ACK iptables log message fields (requires
51      --log-tcp-sequence on the iptables command line).  This allows the ipEye
52      signature to work.
53    - Added --debug-sid to allow a specific Snort rule to be debugged while
54      psad runs it through its detection engine.  A consequence of this is
55      that the -d command line argument must be spelled out, i.e. "psad
56      --debug".
57    - Bugfix to allow logging prefixes to omit trailing spaces.  This is a bug
58      in the iptables logging format to allow this in the first place, but
59      before this gets fixed psad needs to compensate.
60    - Bugfix for syslog-ng init script path in install.pl.
61    - Bugfix to include a "source" definition for /proc/kmsg if not already
62      defined for syslog-ng daemons.
63    - Minor memory handling bugfixes discovered by valgrind the excellent
64      Valgrind project: http://www.valgrind.org
65
66psad-2.0.3 (12/31/2006):
67    - Removed Psad.pm perl module and kmsgsd.pl and psadwatchd.pl scripts.
68      This is a major change that allows psad to be more flexible and
69      completely derive its config from the psad.conf file and from the
70      command line.  In the previous scheme, psad imported its config with a
71      function within Psad.pm, and this required that psad imported the Psad
72      perl module before reading its config. A consequence was that the
73      PSAD_LIBS_DIR var could not be specified usefully within the config
74      file.
75    - Added the ability to recursively resolve embedded variables from *.conf
76      files (with a limit of 20 resolution attempts).
77    - Added IGNORE_KERNEL_TIMESTAMP so that Linux distros that add a timestamp
78      to all kernel messages (Ubuntu for example) can be ignored.
79    - Consolidated code to import data out of /var/log/psad/<ip> directories
80      with code to display status and analysis output (-S and -A).
81      Essentially the %scan hash is built by the filesystem data import
82      routine and the remainder of the code references this single data
83      structure.
84
85psad-2.0.2 (12/23/2006):
86    - Added the ability to download the latest signatures from cipherdyne.org
87      in install.pl.
88    - Added the cd_rpmbuilder script to make it easy to build RPM's out of
89      CipherDyne projects by automatically downloading the project .tar.gz and
90      .spec files from http://www.cipherdyne.org/.
91    - Added print statements for @INC array in debug mode so that the user can
92      see the additional /usr/lib/psad/* directories added by
93      import_psad_perl_modules().
94    - Changed Unix::Syslog import strategy from "use" to "require" since the
95      path is not known until import_psad_perl_modules() gets a chance to
96      run (psad ran fine without this, but it is more consistent this way).
97    - Bugfix for not properly including elements of the
98      @connected_subnets_cidr array.
99    - IP subnet bugfix to make sure to get the entire subnet in signature
100      import routine if it is not in CIDR format
101    - Bugfix to not print an IP addresses in the "top attackers" section that
102      do not have at least one packet or signature match (for any reason).
103    - Bugfix to not print more than TOP_IP_LOG_THRESHOLD IP addresses in thet
104      top attackers section.
105    - Updated install.pl to reference configuration paths directly from
106      psad.conf instead of defining them separately.  This should fix Debian
107      bug #403566.
108    - Added -c argument to install.pl so that the path to a psad.conf file
109      can be altered from the command line.
110    - Bugfix to not import any IP from the top_attackers file from a previous
111      psad run that does not have a /var/log/psad/<ip> directory.
112    - Added MIN_DANGER_LEVEL to allow all alerts and /var/log/psad/<ip>
113      tracking to be disabled unless an attacker reaches at least this
114      danger level.
115    - Added text in install.pl to mention ifconfig parsing for HOME_NET
116      derivation.
117
118psad-2.0.1 (12/12/2006):
119    - Added Nachi worm reconnaisannce icmp signature
120    - Added the psad_ip_len signature keyword to allow the length field in the
121      IP header to be explicitly tested.
122    - Bugfix for inappropriately removing some directories in @INC when
123      splicing in psad perl module paths.
124    - Switched nf2csv installation path in install.pl to /usr/bin/.
125
126psad-2.0 (12/10/2006):
127    - Completely refactored the Snort rule matching support in psad.  Added
128      many header field tests with full range matching support.  These tests
129      include the following keywords from Snort: ttl, id, seq, ack, window,
130      icmp_id, icmp_seq, itype, icode, ip_proto, ipopts, and sameip.
131    - Refactored all signatures in /etc/psad/signatures to conform to new
132      signature matching support in this release.  There are now about 190
133      signatures that psad can run directly against Netfilter logging
134      messages (i.e. without the help of fwsnort).
135    - Added the ability to download the latest signatures file from
136      http://www.cipherdyne.org/psad/signatures with the --sig-update command
137      line argument to psad.
138    - Added "MISC Windows popup spam" signature.  This allows psad to detect
139      when attempts are made to send spam via the Windows Messenger service.
140    - Completely reworked --Status and --Analyze output, signature matches
141      are included now, along with a listing of top sig matches, top scanned
142      ports, and top attackers.  Also, scan data is not written to
143      /var/log/psad/ipt_analysis/ before display analysis output in -A mode;
144      analysis results are displayed much faster this way.
145    - Added ipEye, Subversion, Kuang2, Microsoft SQL, Radmin, and Ghostsurf
146      signatures.
147    - Added 'data in TCP SYN packet' signature.
148    - Added --CSV mode so that psad can be used to generate comma-separated
149      value output suitable for the AfterGlow project (see
150      http://afterglow.sourceforge.net/index.html) for graphical
151      representations of Netfilter logs and associated scan data.  Also added
152      nf2csv so that normal users can take advantage of this feature.
153    - Added emulation of the Snort "dsize" test through the use of the IP
154      length field for TCP/ICMP signatures, and the UDP length field for UDP
155      signatures.  For SYN packets, TCP options are included so psad
156      automatically adds 44 bytes (the maximum length for TCP options) so the
157      dsize test corresponds to the estimated payload length.
158    - Added the psad_id, psad_dsize, and psad_derived_sids fields for the new
159      Snort rule support.
160    - Added the ability to decode IP options, which are included within Snort
161      rules as the "ipopts" keyword.  This functionality requires that the
162      --log-ip-options command line argument is given to iptables when
163      building a rule that uses the LOG target.
164    - Added Snort rules (sids 475, 500, 501, and 502) that detect IP options
165      usage such as source routing and the traceroute IP option with the new
166      IP options decoder.
167    - Enhanced psad email alert output to include sid values that have been
168      derived from existing Snort rules.
169    - Added the ability to expand embedded variables within the psad
170      configuration files.  For example, the path to the FW_DATA_FILE is
171      defined in psad.conf as "$PSAD_DIR/fwdata", which resolves to
172      /var/log/psad/fwdata when the PSAD_DIR variable is expanded.  This
173      feature allows a consistent set of file paths to easily be defined
174      instead of using the full path for each file path.
175    - Better validation of IPT_AUTO_CHAIN{n} variables so that the from_chain
176      cannot be identical to the to_chain.
177    - Added dump_config() to psadwatchd.c and kmsgsd.c when compiled with
178      debugging support.
179    - Added ENABLE_INTF_LOCAL_NETS to have psad automatically treat all IP
180      addresses that are part of the local system as belonging to the HOME_NET
181      for signature matching.
182    - Added ENABLE_SNORT_SIG_STRICT to have psad exit if there are any
183      problems found with Snort rules in the /etc/psad/signatures file.  If
184      this feature is disabled (this is the default), then psad generates
185      syslog warnings for improperly formatted signatures).
186    - Update to print the number of IP addresses at each danger level in -A
187      analysis mode.  This is useful to get a sense for how long the disk IO
188      might take to write out all of the /var/log/psad/ipt_analysis/<IP>
189      directories.
190    - Added code to restart kmsgsd at psad start up if a previous kmsgsd
191      process is still running and TRUNCATE_FWDATA is set to 'Y' (this is the
192      default).  This probably isn't strictly necessary because kmsgsd is
193      capable of writing to the fwdata file even if another process truncates
194      it.
195    - Added code to recreate the AUTO_IPT_SOCK (/var/run/psad/auto_ipt.sock)
196      file if some other process happens to delete it out of /var/run/psad/
197    - Bugfix to allow backwards compatibility with old NOT_USED value
198      for the HOME_NET variable.
199    - Bugfix to cleanup any lost blocking rules from the running psad
200      timeouts (a separate process might have deleted rules from the psad
201      chains).
202    - Bugfix to allow Netfilter log messages to include the PHYSDEV (i.e.
203      PHYSIN and PHYSOUT) interfaces.
204    - Updated to read architecture-dependent perl module installation
205      directory out of /usr/lib/psad (e.g. "/usr/lib/psad/x86_64-linux")
206      before importing psad perl modules such as IPTables::Parse, etc. These
207      modules are now imported via "require" after the appropriate
208      directories have been added to @INC. This allows the RPM files to be
209      built on one system that builds @INC differently than the system where
210      psad is actually installed since psad can now compensate for this.
211    - Added new code to populate the <dst>_signature file in each of the
212      /var/log/psad/<ip> directories with verbose information including the
213      signature time, sid, protocol, dst port, and packet count.
214    - Changed --interval to --Interval, and added --interface to allow
215      psad's detection to be limited to a specific IN interface for the INPUT
216      and FORWARD chains (or OUT interface for the OUTPUT chain).
217    - Replaced --status-brief with --status-summary, but changed it so that
218      only the detailed IP status information is omitted.
219    - Removed unnecessary --status-sort-dl option.
220    - Added STATUS_OUTPUT_FILE so the --Status and --Analyze output is
221      captured instead of just being lost if the output was not piped to
222      'less' or another similar program.
223    - Added --restrict-ip so that psad will restrict its attack detection
224      operations to a specific IP or network.
225    - Updated psadwatchd.c to parse EMAIL_ADDRESSES out of
226      /etc/psad/psad.conf to avoid duplication of variables.
227    - Bugfix to clear old @ipt_config array after receiving a HUP signal.
228      This bug broke the auto-blocking mode.
229    - Bugfix for syslog-ng config so that any custom source for /proc/kmsg is
230      used for the psadfifo path.
231
232psad-1.4.8 (10/15/2006):
233    - Added the ability to get the auto-blocking status for a specific IP
234      address in --status-ip mode.
235    - Bugfix to use the IPT_OUTPUT_FILE and IPT_ERROR_FILE configuration
236      variables.
237    - Bugfix to restore "start" functionality in Gentoo init script.
238    - Added the ability to selectively disable psad auto-blocking emails.
239    - Added more rigorous IP matching regex from Sebastien J. (contributed
240      originally for fwknop).
241
242psad-1.4.7 (09/10/2006):
243    - Completely re-worked IPTables::ChainMgr to support the return of
244      iptables error messages that are collected via stderr.  This is critical
245      to fixing a bug where psad would sometimes die on an iptables command
246      but no information would be returned to the user.
247    - Added the ability to specify the position for both the jump rule into
248      the psad chains as well as the position for new rules within the psad
249      chains via the -I argument to iptables.  This fixes a bug where the user
250      was given the impression that the IPTABLES_AUTO_RULENUM would accomplish
251      this.
252    - Populated the _debug option in the IPTables::ChainMgr module, and also
253      added a _verbose option so that the specific iptables commands can
254      actually be seen as IPTables::ChainMgr functions are called.
255    - Added code to install.pl to ask the user if a manual restart of syslog
256      is ok upon an unsuccessful test of the syslog reconfiguration.  This
257      fixes a bug where some syslog daemons might not re-import their
258      configurations after receiving a HUP signal.
259    - Bugfix for incorrect config variable name that gated Netfilter
260      prerequisite checks.
261    - Added code to install.pl to update command paths in psad.conf and
262      psadwatchd.conf if any of the paths are broken (i.e. the local system
263      does not conform to the default paths).  By default this only happens if
264      the user does not want old configs to be merged, but to override this
265      use the new --path-update command line argument to install.pl.
266    - Added the --Skip-mod-install command line argument to install.pl to
267      allow all perl module installs to be skipped.
268    - Added the --force-mod-regex command line argument to install.pl to allow
269      a regex match on perl module names to force matching modules to be
270      installed.
271    - Added the logrotate.psad file (contributed by Albert Whale).
272
273psad-1.4.6 (06/13/2006):
274    - Added ENABLE_AUTO_IDS_REGEX and AUTO_BLOCK_REGEX to allow filtering on
275      logging prefixes.
276    - Added code to save DShield email to a file.
277    - Added IPTABLES_PREREQ_CHECK to allow the administrator to control the
278      frequency of Netfilter checks (for auto-block compatibility).
279    - Added IGNORE_LOG_PREFIXES to allow certain log prefixes to be completely
280      ignored by psad.
281    - Added classification.config file from Snort-2.3.3 so that psad can
282      assign danger levels based upon Snort rule class type.  This is useful
283      when also running fwsnort.
284    - Added snort_rule_dl to allow specific psad to assign specific danger
285      level values to particular signatures.  This is useful if you want to
286      do define certain Snort rules as being particularly evil (or not).
287      Running fwsnort is also necessary to take advantage of this feature.
288    - Added reference.config so that psad can include reference information in
289      email alerts that are derived from attacks detected by fwsnort.
290    - Updated to Snort-2.3.3 signatures.
291    - Updated to whois-4.7.13.
292
293psad-1.4.5 (01/13/2006):
294    - Bugfix in IPTables::Parse to allow the limit target to apply to
295      logging rules.
296    - Made calls to chain creation and jump rule functions for only every
297      100 block calls in auto-IDS mode.
298    - Bugfix to make sure /var/run/psad directory exists at startup since
299      this directory is removed by some Linux distributions at boot time.
300    - Bugfix for zero masks in auto_dl; this allows a network of "0.0.0.0/0"
301      to be specified.
302    - Added ENABLE_FW_LOGGING_CHECK so that the Netfilter policy check can be
303      enabled/disabled easily via psad.conf.
304    - Enhanced -D output to include "uname -a" and "perl -V" output.
305    - Added ENABLE_RENEW_BLOCK_EMAILS to allow whether renew emails are sent
306      for auto-blocked addresses.
307
308psad-1.4.4 (11/27/2005):
309    - Added MAC address reporting in psad email alerts.  This feature is
310      enabled via a new config keyword "ENABLE_MAC_ADDR_REPORTING".
311    - Added --fw-rm-block-ip <ip> option to allow IP addresses to be removed
312      from the auto-blocking chains from the command line.
313    - Updated command line firewall arguments to write commands to the
314      AUTO_IPT_SOCK domain socket.
315    - Added the ability to specify ports and port ranges to auto_dl file.
316    - Added --force-mod-install command line argument to installer to force
317      perl modules used by psad to be installed within /usr/lib/psad
318      regardless of whether they already exist in the system perl tree.
319    - Bugfix in the installer to seek() to the end of the fwdata file
320    - Bugfix for psad repeatedly trying to remove the same IP address(es)
321      from the auto-blocking chains.
322      instead of reading the entire thing into memory.
323    - Added the ability to truncate the fwdata file via a new configuration
324      keyword "TRUNCATE_FWDATA" (this is enabled by default).
325    - Bugfix in auto-blocking mode for deleting AUTO_IPT_SOCK when a HUP
326      signal is received.
327    - Bugfix for parsing Netfilter policies that contain ULOG logging rules
328      instead of the standard LOG target.
329    - Removed the smtpdaemon requirement in the RPM because psad might be
330      configured to not send email alerts.
331
332psad-1.4.3 (09/27/2005):
333    - Bugfixes for auto-blocking code.  Timeouts should be handled
334      properly, including cached IP addresses in the auto_blocked_iptables
335      file that are referenced upon psad startup.  Communication with the
336      running psad is performed over a Unix domain socket in --fw-block
337      mode.
338    - Bugfix to seek to the end of the fwdata file instead of reading the
339      entire thing into memory and then looking for newly written logging
340      messages.  This drastically reduces the amount of memory required
341      by psad.
342    - Updated to only display psad chains if --verbose is set
343    - Updated to automatically flush the psad auto-response Netfilter chains
344      at start time (subject to a new config keyword "FLUSH_IPT_AT_INIT").
345
346psad-1.4.2 (07/15/2005):
347    - Dependency bugfixes for mail binary.
348    - Bugfix for various IGNORE_* keywords not being honored.
349    - Bugfix for not timing out blocked IP addresses from a previous run.
350    - Updated to version 0.2 of the IPTables::ChainMgr module.
351    - Updated to not truncate the fwdata file upon psad startup.
352    - Added --fw-dump which produces a sanitized (i.e. no IP addresses)
353      version of the local Netfilter policy.  Also added --fw-include-ips
354      to (optionally) not sanitize IPs/nets.  Note that the 0.0.0.0 and
355      0.0.0.0/0 IPs/nets are not sanitized since they give no useful
356      information about specific IPs/nets.
357    - Added ulogd data collection mode.
358    - Bugfix for FW_MSG_SEARCH default (at least "DROP" is included now
359      even if FW_SEARCH_ALL is set to "N").
360    - Bugfix for non-network address for subnet specified with --fw-block.
361    - Bugfix for multiple --fw-block IPs/nets.
362    - Added README.SYSLOG (Francois Marier contributed the content).
363    - Made email alert prefixes (such as "[psad-alert]") customizable via
364      psad.conf.
365
366psad-1.4.1 (03/12/2005):
367    - Updated to Snort-2.3 rules in the snort_rules directory.
368    - Re-worked syslog installation portion of install.pl.  The user will
369      always be prompted to enter the syslog daemon now, and also added
370      the --syslog-conf arg to allow the config file path to be specified
371      on the install.pl command line.
372    - Bugfix in install.pl for using IP address instead of network address
373      of directly connected subnets.
374    - Updated to version 4.6.23 of the whois client.
375    - Bugfix for distinguishing OPT field associated with --log-tcp-options
376      vs. --log-ip-options.
377    - Bugfix for syslog format that may not include the "kernel:" tag.
378    - Applied patch to only install perl modules that are not already
379      installed (Blair Zajac).
380    - Bugfix for the psad version number that is sent in DShield alerts.
381    - Updated Psad module directory structure to be consistent with current
382      versions of perl (5.8.x).
383    - Added IPTables::ChainMgr module.
384    - Completely re-worked the Netfilter auto-blocking code to use
385      IPTables::ChainMgr functions so that auto-generated rules are placed
386      in chains created by psad.
387    - Added IPT_AUTO_CHAIN keyword in psad.conf which is used to define the
388      set of chains to which auto-generated Netfilter rules are added.
389    - Added --fw-list-auto to display the contents of psad Netfilter
390      chains.
391    - Added the ability to import an IP into the Netfilter auto-blocking
392      chains from the command line with --fw-block-ip.  This allows psad to
393      apply its timeout mechanism against such IPs/nets.
394    - Added the ability to ignore packets based on input interface with
395      IGNORE_INTERFACES in psad.conf.
396    - Re-worked auto_dl code, better hash design and searching function.
397    - Removed dependency on sendmail command unless DShield alerting is
398      enabled and a DShield user id is specified.
399    - Added ALERTING_METHODS keyword in the file alert.conf to allow either
400      syslog or email alerts (or both) to be disabled.  Psad and psadwatchd
401      reference this file.
402
403psad-1.4.0 (11/26/2004):
404    - Added p0f-style passive OS fingerprinting through the use of the OPT
405      field in iptables log messages (which is only logged through the use
406      of the --log-tcp-options command line arg to iptables).
407    - Bugfix for iptables log messages that include tcp sequence numbers
408      (see the iptables --log-tcp-sequence command line argument).
409    - Bugfix for O_RDONLY open flag when kmsgsd receives a HUP signal.
410
411psad-1.3.4 (10/17/2004):
412    - Bugfix for init script directory on Slackware systems.
413    - Bugfix for null prefix counters.
414    - Added --whois-analysis argument since whois lookups are now disabled
415      by default when running in analysis (-A) mode.
416    - Updated psad_init() to rework setup() and import orderings vs.
417      --fw-analyze and --Benchmark modes.
418    - Added bidirectional iptables auto-blocking support for all chains
419      except for the INPUT and OUTPUT chains.
420    - Better syslog message support when run in auto-blocking mode.
421    - Added iptables auto-block rules section to --Status output.
422    - Added init script for Fedora systems.
423    - Added default_log() function to IPTables::Parse.  This function
424      parses user defined chains in an effort to find default logging
425      rules.
426    - Added EMAIL_LIMIT_STATUS_MSG to control whether or not psad sends a
427      status email when the PSAD_EMAIL_LIMIT threshold has been reached by
428      an IP address.
429    - Added ENABLE_SCAN_ARCHIVE to control whether or not psad archives old
430      scan data within /var/log/psad/scan_archive at start time.
431
432psad-1.3.3 (09/09/2004):
433    - Fixed __WARN__ and __DIE__ exception handlers so that they
434      reference global message variables.
435    - Fixed auto danger level assignments.  Network auto assignments as
436      well as per-protocol assignments work now.
437    - Added SYSLOG_DAEMON variable to define which syslog daemon is running
438      on the underlying system instead of just guessing.
439    - Added the ability to ignore both ranges and specific ports/protocols
440      with a new variable IGNORE_PORTS in psad.conf.
441    - Bugfix to make sure email addresses are separated by spaces when
442      Psad::sendmail() is called.
443    - Bugfix for ipt_prefix counters not being parsed correct at import
444      time.
445    - Removed exclude_auto_ignore_ip() since this function was made
446      unnecessary by newly rewritten auto-assign code.
447    - Bugfix for Text::Wrap calls in install.pl uninstall() routine.
448    - Bugfix for using --no-fw-search-all even when FW_SEARCH_ALL is
449      set to "Y".
450    - Removed extraneous ".." and "**" chars from syslog messages, and
451      updated to use [+] prefix strings.
452    - Moved init scripts into init-scripts directory within source tree.
453    - Removed dependency on Bit::Vector (psad does not seem to make use
454      of any Date::Calc functions that require it).
455    - Wrapped copy() and move() calls with "or die()" to make them
456      safer in install.pl.
457    - Added check for existing psad process in install.pl.
458    - Updated to a new psad email alert subject format.  Prefixes of
459      "[psad-alert]", "[psad-error]", and "[psad-status]" are used now.
460    - Permissions fixes with umask() setting in /var/log/psad, permissions
461      fixes for files in /etc/psad at install time.
462
463psad-1.3.2 (06/25/2004):
464    - Removed FW_MSG_SEARCH from psad.conf, and created a new config
465      file "fw_search.conf" that both psad and kmsgsd use to get the
466      FW_MSG_SEARCH definition(s).
467    - Added default mode of parsing all iptables messages instead of
468      just those that contain specific search strings.  A new config
469      variable "FW_SEARCH_ALL" was added to fw_search.conf that
470      controls this mode.
471    - Updated psad and kmsgsd so that multiple firewall search strings
472      can be specified through multiple FW_MSG_SEARCH variables in
473      fw_search.conf.
474    - Added iptables chain and logging-prefix tracking for current
475      scan interval in email alerts.
476    - Added protocol-specific auto-danger level assignments.
477    - Added total scan source and destination IP address counters in
478      --Status output.
479    - Added number of email alerts sent and OS guess in default
480      --Status output.  The output is getting wide now, so there is
481      also a new option --status-brief that will remove the alerts
482      sent and OS guess columns.
483    - Added getopt() command line arg parsing to kmsgsd with two new
484      options "-c" (for config file path) and "-k" (for fw_search.conf
485      path).
486    - Made iptables parsing code into its own script "fwcheck_psad"
487      that gets called by psad.
488    - Added Dshield stats summary to --Status output.
489    - Bugfix for auto-ignore IP addresses and networks being missed.
490    - Made parsing of ifconfig output language independent (should
491      handle French now for example).
492    - Removed "psad_" prefix on files psad_signatures, psad_auto_ips,
493      psad_posf, and psad_icmp_types in /etc/psad/.
494    - Updated to version 4.6.14 of the whois client.
495
496psad-1.3.1 (12/25/2003):
497    - Added the ability to import /var/log/psad/<ip> directories
498      back into memory so scan data remains persistent across
499      psad restarts or system reboots.
500    - Added --Analyze-msgs to run psad in analysis mode against an
501      iptables logfile (/var/log/psad/fwdata by default).  The logfile
502      path can be changed with --messages-file.
503    - Added icmp type and code validation against RFC 792.
504    - Bugfix for being too strict with FW_MSG_SEARCH.
505    - Added port ranges for tcp and udp scans in <ip>/<dst>_packet_ctr.
506    - Added <ip>/<dst>_start_time and <ip>/os_guess.
507    - Bugfix for missing --no-signatures code.
508    - Updated to Snort-2.1 signatures.
509
510psad-1.3 (11/30/2003):
511    - Replaced all signatures in psad_signatures with updated snort
512      rules.
513    - Added support for source and destination ip addresses in
514      signature matching code.  A new variable "HOME_NET" makes this
515      possible.
516    - Added support for the iptables output chain.
517    - Added chain tracking for all signatures.
518    - Replaced match_fastsigs() with two new routines for tcp and
519      udp signature matching that don't autovivify hash keys.
520    - Removed support for ipchains.
521    - Added support for metalog.
522    - Removed all "Undefined Code" signatures from psad_signatures.
523    - Re-worked %auto_blocked_ips hash and corresponding blocking
524      routines.  This (hopefully) fixes a restart bug seen on older
525      systems such as those that are still running versions of perl
526      less than 5.6.
527    - Re-worked firewall policy parsing routines.  Chains that have
528      a default policy of DROP are handled properly now.
529    - Bugfix for missing NULL char in kmsgsd.c.
530    - Updated scan alerting format.  Put current interval protocol
531      status before source and destination addresses.
532    - Buffer overflow fix in kmsgsd.c for size of buf[MAX_LINE_BUF]
533      buffer in read() call.
534    - Added --no-kmsgsd option to aid in psad --debug mode.
535
536psad-1.2.4 (10/15/2003):
537    - Added danger level to subject line in email alerts.
538    - Removed diskmond altogether since psad now handles disk space
539      thresholds directly.  This allows filehandles to be handled
540      properly.
541    - Added auto_block_ignore_ip() to prevent 0.0.0.0, 127.0.0.1,
542      and local interface ips from being included in auto blocking
543      routines.
544    - Added Bit::Vector module to stop installation warnings from
545      Date::Calc.
546    - Made get_local_ips() called periodically since local addresses
547      may change (dhcp, etc.).
548    - Added installation code and init script for Gentoo Linux.
549    - Bugfix for INIT_DIR in uninstall() routine in install.pl.
550    - Bugfix for auto-blocking loop after timeouts are hit.
551    - Added --status-dl [N] to display status information only for
552      those scans that reach at least [N].
553
554psad-1.2.3 (09/12/2003):
555    - Added interface tracking for scans.
556    - Bugfix for not opening /etc/hosts.deny the right way in
557      tcpwr_block().
558    - Bugfix for psadfifo path in syslog-ng config.
559    - Better format for summary stats section in email alerts.
560    - Bugfix for INIT_DIR path on non-RedHat systems.
561    - Bugfix for gzip path.
562    - Make Psad.pm installed last of all perl modules installed
563      by psad.
564    - Added additional call to incr_syscall_ctr() in psadwatchd.c
565
566psad-1.2.2 (08/24/2003):
567    - psad is finally available as an RPM package.
568    - Added chain tracking for iptables.
569    - Added chain counts to --Status output.
570    - Bugfix for psad not taking into account multiple scan
571      destinations.
572    - Reworked auto-blocking code for both tcpwrappers and
573      iptables.  Lines added to /etc/hosts.deny will no longer be
574      duplicated.  Added IPTABLES_AUTO_RULENUM and
575      IPCHAINS_AUTO_RULENUM so auto rules can be inserted at a
576      configurable point within iptables and ipchains policies.
577    - Psad now installs all perl modules within /usr/lib/psad.
578    - Removed /var/log/psad/<ip>/scanlog file since it was wasting
579      too much disk.
580    - Made psad, psadwatchd, and diskmond take the machine hostname
581      from their respective config files.  This makes installation
582      via the rpm easier, and is generally cleaner.
583    - Added scan destination in --Status output.
584    - Added --status-sort-dl (the default status output is now
585      sorted by ip address by default).
586
587psad-1.2.1 (07/11/2003):
588    - Bugfix for multiple processes being spawned by psadwatchd
589      due to lack of proper config variables in the new split
590      daemon config files.
591    - Bugfix for old scan messages being regenerated if a HUP
592      signal is received.
593    - Bugfix for incorrectly calculating disk utilization in
594      diskmond.c.
595    - Extended install.pl to include compression for archived
596      files in /etc/psad.
597    - Added preserve questions in install.pl for the psad
598      signature and auto ips files.
599    - Bugfix for --USR1 command line switch not mapping to the
600      correct subroutine.
601    - Bugfix for psad man page missing the pipe character in
602      psadfifo line for syslog.conf.
603
604psad-1.2 (06/18/2003):
605    - Added passive OS fingerprinting based on packet ttl, length,
606      tos, and id fields.
607    - Added dshield.org alerting capability.
608    - Added exec_external_script() for external script execution.
609    - Added auto blocked timeouts.
610    - Implemented config re-imports via HUP signals in a manner
611      similar to various other system daemons (sysylog, apache
612      etc.)
613    - Better --Status output that shows packet counts per protocol
614      for each ip.
615    - Added --ip-status for more verbose status output for a
616      particular ip address.
617    - Added config preservation code to install.pl.
618    - Added Psad::psyslog().
619    - Split psad.conf into a separate config file for each of the
620      four psad daemons.
621    - Completely re-worked the auto blocking code (made dedicated
622      files for iptables and ipchains block methods).
623    - Added danger level hash.
624    - Minor code cleanups (shorter hash keys, etc.).
625
626psad-1.1.1 (04/26/2003):
627    - Bugfix for incorrect usage of %scan hash keys associated
628      with tcp/udp when the current protocol is icmp.
629    - Bugfix for being too strict on iptable default log string.
630    - Reworked USR1 signal handler so the Data::Dumper function
631      call is made in the main part of the psad code.
632    - Added a startup message for psad.
633    - Minor bugfix for leading whitespace in auto_ips.
634
635psad-1.1 (04/20/2003):
636    - Added the IPTables::Parse module for better processing of
637      the iptables ruleset.
638    - Added --snort-sids so that iptables messages generated by
639      fwsnort can be included in alerts.  Such alerts now include
640      the content fields of packets (fwsnort uses the iptables
641      string match module).
642    - Added the ability to specify entire networks in the auto
643      ips file through the use of the Net::IPv4Addr module.
644    - Better logging format that reinstates the current interval,
645      and adds an "overall stats" section that includes packet
646      counters per protocol.
647    - Removed the PROTO hash key since it was unnecesssary.
648    - Better benchmarking code.
649    - Bug fix for incorrectly looking for the "MAC" string in
650      iptables messages that could have been generated by the
651      FORWARD chain.
652
653psad-1.0 (02/27/2003):
654    - Added --Benchmark and --packets command line options to support
655      psad benchmarking.
656    - Bugfix for improperly detecting NULL scans.
657    - Completely redesigned website.
658
659psad-1.0.0-pre4 (11/26/2002):
660    - Rewrote kmsgsd and psadwatchd in C.
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