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<h1 align="center"><font color="#FFFFFF">Shorewall 1.2 Errata</font></h1>
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<font face="Century Gothic, Arial, Helvetica">
<b><u>IMPORTANT</u></b></font></p>
<p align="center">
<b><u>If you use a Windows system to download a corrected script, be sure to
run the script through <a href="http://www.megaloman.com/%7Ehany/software/hd2u/">
dos2unix</a>
after you have moved it to your Linux system.</u></b></p>
<p align="center">
<u><b>When the instructions say to install a corrected firewall script in
/etc/shorewall/firewall, use the 'cp' (or 'scp') utility to overwrite the
existing file. DO NOT REMOVE OR RENAME THE OLD /etc/shorewall/firewall
before you do that. /etc/shorewall/firewall is a symbolic link that points
to the 'shorewall' file used by your system initialization scripts to
start Shorewall during boot and it is that file that must be overwritten
with the corrected script. </b></u></p>
<ul>
<li>
<h3 align="Left"><font color="#660066">
<a href="errata_1.htm">
Problems in Version 1.1</a></font></h3>
</li>
<li>
<h3 align="Left"><a href="#V1.2">Problems in Version 1.2</a></h3>
</li>
<li>
<h3 align="Left"><font color="#660066"><a href="#iptables">
Problem with iptables version 1.2.3</a></font></h3>
</li>
<li>
<h3 align="Left"><a href="#Debug">Problems with kernel 2.4.18 and
RedHat iptables</a></h3>
</li>
</ul>
<hr>
<h3 align="Left"><a name="V1.2"></a>Problems in Version 1.2</h3>
<h3 align="Left">Version 1.2.13</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<p align="Left">Some users have reported problems installing the RPM
on SuSE 7.3 where rpm reports a conflict with kernel <= 2.2 even
though a 2.4 kernel RPM is installed. To get around this problem, use
the --nodeps option to rpm (e.g., "rpm -ivh --nodeps
shorewall-1.2-13.noarch.rpm").<br>
<br>
The problem stems from the fact that SuSE does not
include a package named "kernel" but rather has a number of packages
that provide the virtual package "kernel". Since virtual packages have
no version associated with them, a conflict results. Since the
workaround is simple, I don't intend to change the Shorewall package.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p align="Left">Shorewall accepts invalid rules of the form:<br>
<br>
<font face="Courier">ACCEPT <src> <dest>:<ip addr> all <port number> -
<original ip address><br>
<br>
</font>The <port number> is ignored with the result that <u>all</u>
connection requests from the <src> zone whose original destination IP
address matches the last column are forwarded to the <dest> zone, IP
address <ip addr>.
<a href="http://www.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/errata/1.2.13/firewall">
This corrected firewall script</a> correctly generates an error when
such a rule is encountered.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<h3 align="Left">Version 1.2.11</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<p align="Left">The 'try' command is broken.</li>
<li>
<p align="Left">The usage text printed by the shorewall utility
doesn't show the optional timeout for the 'try' command.</li>
</ul>
<p align="Left">Both problems are corrected by
<a href="http://www.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/errata/1.2.11/shorewall">
this new version of /sbin/shorewall</a>.</p>
<h3 align="Left">Sample Configurations:</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<p align="Left">There have been several problems with SSH, DNS and
ping in the two- and three-interface examples. Before reporting
problems with these services, please verify that you have the latest
version of the appropriate sample 'rules' file.</li>
</ul>
<h3 align="Left">All Versions through 1.2.10</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<p align="Left">The <a href="PPTP.htm#ServerFW">documentation for
running PoPToP on the firewall system</a> contained an incorrect entry
in the /etc/shorewall/hosts file. The corrected entry (underlined) is
shown here:</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<blockquote>
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<td><b>ZONE</b></td>
<td><b>HOST(S)</b></td>
<td><b>OPTIONS</b></td>
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<td>loc</td>
<td><u>eth2</u>:192.168.1.0/24</td>
<td>routestopped</td>
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<td>loc</td>
<td>ppp+:192.168.1.0/24</td>
<td> </td>
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</blockquote>
</blockquote>
<h3 align="Left">All Versions through 1.2.8</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<p align="Left">The shorewall.conf file and the documentation
incorrectly refer to a parameter in /etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf
called LOCKFILE; the correct name for the parameter is SUBSYSLOCK (<a href="Documentation.htm#Conf">see
the corrected online documentation</a>). Users of the rpm should
change the name (and possibly the value) of this parameter so that
Shorewall interacts properly with the SysV init scripts. The
documentation on this web site has been corrected and
<a href="http://www.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/errata/1.2.8/shorewall.conf">
here's a corrected version of shorewall.conf</a>.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p align="Left">The documentation indicates that a comma-separated
list of IP/subnet addresses may appear in an entry in the hosts file.
This is not the case; if you want to specify multiple addresses for a
zone, you need to have a separate entry for each address.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<h3 align="Left">Version 1.2.7</h3>
<p align="Left">Version 1.2.7 is quite broken -- please install 1.2.8</p>
<p>If you have installed and started version 1.2.7 then before trying
to restart under 1.2.8:</p>
<ol>
<li>Look at your /etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf file and note the directory
named in the STATEDIR variable. If that variable is empty, assume
/var/state/shorewall.</li>
<li>Remove the file 'lock' in the directory determined in step 1.</li>
</ol>
<p>You may now restart using 1.2.8.</p>
<h3 align="Left">Version 1.2.6</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<p align="Left">GRE and IPIP tunnels are broken.</li>
<li>
<p align="Left">The following rule results in a start error:<br>
<br>
ACCEPT z1 z2
icmp</li>
</ul>
<p align="Left">To correct the above problems, install
<a href="http://www.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/errata/1.2.6/firewall">this
corrected firewall script</a> in /etc/shorewall/firewall..<h3 align="Left">Version 1.2.5</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<p align="Left">The new ADDRESS column in /etc/shorewall/masq cannot
contain a $-variable name.</li>
<li>
<p align="Left">Errors result if $FW appears in the
/etc/shorewall/policy file.</li>
<li>
<p align="Left">Using Blacklisting without setting BLACKLIST_LOGLEVEL
results in an error at start time.</li>
</ul>
<p align="Left">To correct the above problems, install
<a href="http://www.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/errata/1.2.5/firewall">this
corrected firewall script</a> in /etc/shorewall/firewall.<p align="Left"> <ul>
<li>
<p align="Left">The /sbin/shorewall script produces error messages
saying that 'mygrep' cannot be found.
<a href="http://www.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/errata/1.2.5/shorewall">
Here is the correct version of /sbin/shorewall.</a></li>
</ul>
<h3 align="Left">Version 1.2.4</h3>
<ul>
<li><p align="Left">This version will not install "out of the box" without
modification. Before attempting to start the
firewall, please change the STATEDIR in /etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf to
refer to /var/lib/shorewall. This only applies to fresh installations -- if
you are upgrading from a previous version of Shorewall, version 1.2.4 will
work without modification.</li>
</ul>
<h3 align="Left">Version 1.2.3</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<p align="Left">When BLACKLIST_LOGLEVEL is set, packets from blacklisted
hosts aren't logged. Install <a href="http://www.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/errata/1.2.3/firewall">this
corrected firewall script</a> in /etc/shorewall/firewall.</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<p>Alternatively, edit /etc/shorewall/firewall and change line 1564 from:</p>
</blockquote>
<pre> run_iptables -A blacklst -d $addr -j LOG $LOGPARAMS --log-prefix \</pre>
<blockquote>
<p>to</p>
</blockquote>
<pre> run_iptables -A blacklst -s $addr -j LOG $LOGPARAMS --log-prefix \</pre>
<h3 align="Left">Version 1.2.2</h3>
<ul>
<li>The "shorewall status" command hangs after
it displays the chain information. <a href="pub/shorewall/errata/1.2.2/shorewall">Here's
a corrected /sbin/shorewall.</a> if you want to simply modify your copy of
/sbin/shorewall, then at line 445 change this:</li>
</ul>
<div align="left">
<pre align="Left"> status)
clear</pre>
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<blockquote>
<p align="Left">to this:</p>
</blockquote>
<div align="left">
<pre align="Left"> status)
get_config
clear</pre>
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<ul>
<li>The "shorewall monitor" command
doesn't show the icmpdef chain - <a href="pub/shorewall/errata/1.2.2/shorewall">this
corrected /sbin/shorewall</a> fixes that problem as well as the status
problem described above.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>In all 1.2.x versions, the 'CLIENT PORT(S)'
column in /etc/shorewall/tcrules is ignored. This is corrected in <a href="/pub/shorewall/errata/1.2.2/firewall">this
updated firewall script</a>. Place the script in /etc/shorewall/firewall. Thanks to Shingo Takeda for
spotting this bug.</li>
</ul>
<h3 align="Left">Version 1.2.1</h3>
<ul>
<li>The new <i>logunclean </i>interface option is not
described in the help text in /etc/shorewall/interfaces. An <a href="ftp://ftp.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/errata/1.2.1/interfaces">updated
interfaces file</a> is available.</li>
<li>When REJECT is specified in a TCP rule, Shorewall
correctly replies with a TCP RST packet. Previous versions of the
firewall script are broken in the case of a REJECT policy, however; in
REJECT policy chains, all requests are currently replied to with an
ICMP port-unreachable packet. <a href="http://www.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/errata/1.2.1/firewall">This
corrected firewall script</a> replies to TCP requests with TCP RST in
REJECT policy chains. Place the script in /etc/shorewall/firewall.</li>
</ul>
<h3 align="Left">Version 1.2.0</h3>
<blockquote>
<p align="Left"><b>Note: </b>If you are upgrading from one of the Beta
RPMs to 1.2.0, you must use the "--oldpackage" option to rpm
(e.g., rpm -Uvh --oldpackage shorewall-1.2-0.noarch.rpm).</p>
<p align="Left">The tunnel script released in version 1.2.0 contained
errors -- a <a href="ftp://ftp.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/errata/1.2.0/tunnel">corrected
script</a> is available.</p>
</blockquote>
<hr>
<h3 align="Left"><a name="iptables"></a><font color="#660066">
Problem with iptables version 1.2.3</font></h3>
<blockquote>
<p align="Left">There are a couple of serious bugs in iptables 1.2.3 that
prevent it from working with Shorewall. Regrettably,
RedHat released this buggy iptables in RedHat 7.2. </p>
<p align="Left"> I have built a <a href="ftp://ftp.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/errata/iptables-1.2.3-3.i386.rpm">
corrected 1.2.3 rpm which you can download here</a> and I have also built
an <a href="ftp://ftp.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/iptables-1.2.4-1.i386.rpm">
iptables-1.2.4 rpm which you can download here</a>. If
you are currently running RedHat 7.1, you can install either of these RPMs
<b><u>before</u> </b>you upgrade to RedHat 7.2.</p>
<p align="Left"><font face="Century Gothic, Arial, Helvetica" color="#FF6633"><b>Update
11/9/2001: </b></font>RedHat has
released an iptables-1.2.4 RPM of their own which you can download from<font face="Century Gothic, Arial, Helvetica" color="#FF6633">
<a href="http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2001-144.html">http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2001-144.html</a>.
</font>I have installed this RPM
on my firewall and it works fine.</p>
<p align="Left">If you
would like to patch iptables 1.2.3 yourself, the patches are available
for download. This <a href="ftp://ftp.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/errata/iptables-1.2.3/loglevel.patch">patch</a>
which corrects a problem with parsing of the --log-level specification while
this <a href="ftp://ftp.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/errata/iptables-1.2.3/tos.patch">patch</a>
corrects a problem in handling the TOS target.</p>
<p align="Left">To install one of the above patches:</p>
<ul>
<li>cd iptables-1.2.3/extensions</li>
<li>patch -p0 < <i>the-patch-file</i></li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<h3><a name="Debug"></a>Problems with kernel 2.4.18
and RedHat iptables</h3>
<blockquote>
<p>Users who use RedHat iptables RPMs and who upgrade to kernel 2.4.18 may
experience the following:</p>
<blockquote>
<pre># shorewall start
Processing /etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf ...
Processing /etc/shorewall/params ...
Starting Shorewall...
Loading Modules...
Initializing...
Determining Zones...
Zones: net
Validating interfaces file...
Validating hosts file...
Determining Hosts in Zones...
Net Zone: eth0:0.0.0.0/0
iptables: libiptc/libip4tc.c:380: do_check: Assertion
`h->info.valid_hooks == (1 << 0 | 1 << 3)' failed.
Aborted (core dumped)
iptables: libiptc/libip4tc.c:380: do_check: Assertion
`h->info.valid_hooks == (1 << 0 | 1 << 3)' failed.
Aborted (core dumped)
</pre>
</blockquote>
<p>The RedHat iptables RPM is compiled with debugging enabled but the
user-space debugging code was not updated to reflect recent changes in the
Netfilter 'mangle' table. You can correct the problem by installing
<a href="http://www.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/iptables-1.2.5-1.i386.rpm">
this iptables RPM</a>. If you are already running a 1.2.5 version of
iptables, you will need to specify the --oldpackage option to rpm (e.g.,
"iptables -Uvh --oldpackage iptables-1.2.5-1.i386.rpm").</p>
</blockquote>
<p><font face="Century Gothic, Arial, Helvetica"><font size="2">
Last updated 5/24/2002 - </font><font size="2">
<a href="support.htm">Tom Eastep</a></font>
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<p><font face="Trebuchet MS"><a href="copyright.htm"><font size="2">Copyright</font>
� <font size="2">2001, 2002 Thomas M. Eastep.</font></a></font></p>
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