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Tunnel unwrapping for Snort_inline 2.8.0.1

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Not many people have native IPv6 connectivity and use some form of tunneling. For this reason Nitro Security asked me to develop a Snort preprocessor to unwrap various tunnels. This resulted in the preprocessor ‘ip6tunnel’, which I uploaded to Snort_inline’s SVN yesterday. The preprocessor is capable of unwrapping IPv6-in-IPv4, IPv6-in-IPv6, IPv4-in-IPv6, IPv4-in-IPv4 and finally IPv6-over-UDP. The latter is used by Freenet6.

I chose to develop it as a preprocessor because this allows Snort to inspect both the original packet and the tunnel packet(s). The preprocessor supports recursive unwrapping. The recursion depth is limited to 3 by default, but can be configured differently. Get the preprocessor from Snort_inline’s SVN by checking out the latest trunk:

svn co https://snort-inline.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/snort-inline/trunk

Then have a look at doc/README.IP6TUNNEL for configuration options.

Once again thanks to the great people of Nitro Security. I think it’s great to see this company giving back to the community!

Running IPv6 with Freenet6 when on the road

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I wrote about my experiments with IPv6 before. These were done for my home network where I have an ISP that offers an IPv6 tunnel broker. The last two months I have not been in my home, but instead using internet ‘on the road’ mostly through wireless LANs. There are a number of techniques for using IPv6 if your provider doesn’t offer it, and today I stumbled on one in this NetworkWorld article, so I decided to give it a try.

The artice is about a new IPv6 portal called go6.net, where you can find IPv6 related news and forums. Next to this access to a free IPv6 broker is offered: freenet6. Freenet6 works by tunneling the IPv6 packets in UDP packets over IPv4. Getting it is easy, register an account and download the software. When you are running Debian or Ubuntu you can even skip the last step, a mere ‘apt-get install freenet6’ will do it. This is what I did. Next I just had to enter the username and password I had entered in the registration process in a file called ‘/etc/tsp/tspc.conf’ and issue the command ‘tspc -f /etc/tsp/tspc.conf’. Opening go6.net and kame.net comfirmed I was using IPv6!

Since I’m behind NAT-router internet hosts can’t connect to my laptop directly, but with IPv6 this changes. My laptop is now using a public IPAdress, so I set up a simple firewall script using ip6tables. I found two sites enabling you to check how the internet sees you, here and here. Both showed that my firewall is working. Good.

So now I wanted to blog about this, so I tried to login to my blog… ‘Access Denied’. Oops! Forgot that I only allow certain IPv4 addresses to the admin interface of my blog. This was a good time to see how ModSecurity deals with IPv6 addresses in its rules:

SecRule REMOTE_ADDR “!(192.168.1.2|2001:5c0:8fff:fffe::62fd)” “chain,phase:1,deny,redirect:http://www.inliniac.net/nologin.html”
SecRule REQUEST_URI “/wp-login.php$”

This rule blocks access to wp-login.php for everyone but 192.168.1.2 and 2001:5c0:8fff:fffe::62fd, and redirects them to a static page called nologin.html. This works using IPv6 as well! As you can see ModSecurity does not only support IPv6, it even allows you to mix IPv4 and IPv6 addresses in rules! Now all that was left was the /wp-admin/ section that didn’t block in ModSecurity, but just with Apache itself:

<Location /blog/wp-admin>
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from 192.168.1.2
Allow from 2001:5c0:8fff:fffe::62fd
</Location>

After an Apache restart I could write this post using IPv6!