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<articleinfo>
<title>Shorewall Errata</title>
<authorgroup>
<author>
<firstname>Tom</firstname>
<surname>Eastep</surname>
</author>
</authorgroup>
<pubdate>2003-12-17</pubdate>
<copyright>
<year>2001-2003</year>
<holder>Thomas M. Eastep</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
<para>Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version
1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with
no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover, and with no Back-Cover
Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled
<quote><ulink url="GnuCopyright.htm">GNU Free Documentation License</ulink></quote>.</para>
</legalnotice>
</articleinfo>
<caution>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>If you use a Windows system to download a corrected script, be
sure to run the script through <ulink
url="http://www.megaloman.com/~hany/software/hd2u/">dos2unix</ulink>
after you have moved it to your Linux system.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>If you are installing Shorewall for the first time and plan to
use the .tgz and install.sh script, you can untar the archive, replace
the <quote>firewall</quote> script in the untarred directory with the
one you downloaded below, and then run install.sh.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>When the instructions say to install a corrected firewall script
in /usr/share/shorewall/firewall, you may rename the existing file
before copying in the new file.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><emphasis role="bold">DO NOT INSTALL CORRECTED COMPONENTS ON A
RELEASE EARLIER THAN THE ONE THAT THEY ARE LISTED UNDER BELOW.</emphasis>
For example, do NOT install the 1.3.9a firewall script if you are
running 1.3.7c.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</caution>
<section>
<title>Problems in Version 1.4</title>
<section>
<title>Shorewall 1.4.8</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>When a DNAT rules specifies SNAT (e.g., when &#60;original
dest addr&#62;:&#60;SNAT addr&#62; is given in the ORIGINAL DEST
column), the SNAT specification is effectively ignored in some
cases.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>This problem has been corrected in <ulink
url="http://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/errata/1.4.8/firewall">this
firewall script</ulink> which may be installed in
/usr/share/shorewall/firewall as described above.</para>
</section>
<section>
<title>Shorewall 1.4.7</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Using some versions of <quote>ash</quote> (such as from RH8)
as the SHOREWALL_SHELL causes <quote>shorewall [re]start</quote> to
fail with:<programlisting> &#x00A0;&#x00A0; local: --limit: bad variable name
&#x00A0;&#x00A0; iptables v1.2.8: Couldn&#39;t load match `-j&#39;:/lib/iptables/libipt_-j.so:
&#x00A0;&#x00A0; cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
&#x00A0;&#x00A0; Try `iptables -h&#39; or &#39;iptables --help&#39; for more information.</programlisting></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>When more than one ICMP type is listed in a rule and your
kernel includes multiport match support,&#x00A0; the firewall fails
to start.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Regardless of the setting of LOGUNCLEAN, the value
LOGUNCLEAN=info was used.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>After the following error message, Shorewall was left in an
inconsistent state:<programlisting> Error: Unable to determine the routes through interface xxx</programlisting></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>When a DNAT rules specifies SNAT (e.g., when &#60;original
dest addr&#62;:&#60;SNAT addr&#62; is given in the ORIGINAL DEST
column), the SNAT specification is effectively ignored in some
cases.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>These problems have been corrected in <ulink
url="http://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/errata/1.4.7/firewall">this
firewall script</ulink> which may be installed in
/usr/share/shorewall/firewall as described above.</para>
</section>
<section>
<title>Shorewall 1.4.6</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>If TC_ENABLED is set to yes in shorewall.conf then Shorewall
would fail to start with the error <quote>ERROR:&#x00A0; Traffic
Control requires Mangle</quote>; that problem has been corrected in
<ulink
url="http://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/errata/1.4.6/firewall">this
firewall script</ulink> which may be installed in
/use/share/shorewall/firewall as described above. This problem is
also corrected in bugfix release 1.4.6a.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>This problem occurs in all versions supporting traffic
control. If a MAC address is used in the SOURCE column, an error
occurs as follows:</para>
<para><programlisting> iptables v1.2.8: Bad mac adress `00:08:B5:35:52:E7-d`</programlisting>For
Shorewall 1.4.6 and 1.4.6a users, this problem has been corrected in
<ulink
url="http://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/errata/1.4.6/firewall">this
firewall script</ulink> which may be installed in
/usr/share/shorewall/firewall as described above. For all other
versions, you will have to edit your <quote>firewall</quote> script
(in versions 1.4.*, it is located in /usr/share/shorewall/firewall).
Locate the function add_tcrule_() and in that function, replace this
line:<programlisting> &#x00A0; r=`mac_match $source`&#x00A0;</programlisting>with<programlisting> &#x00A0; &#x00A0; &#x00A0;r=&#34;`mac_match $source` &#34;</programlisting>Note
that there must be a space before the ending quote!</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</section>
<section>
<title>Shorewall 1.4.4b</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Shorewall is ignoring records in /etc/shorewall/routestopped
that have an empty second column (HOSTS). This problem may be
corrected by installing <ulink
url="ftp://ftp1.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/errata/1.4.4b/firewall">this
firewall script</ulink> in /usr/share/shorewall/firewall as
described above.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>The INCLUDE directive doesn&#39;t work when placed in the
/etc/shorewall/zones file. This problem may be corrected by
installing <ulink
url="ftp://ftp1.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/errata/1.4.4b/functions">this
functions script</ulink> in /usr/share/shorewall/functions.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</section>
<section>
<title>Shorewall 1.4.4-1.4.4a</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Log messages are being displayed on the system console even
though the log level for the console is set properly according to
FAQ 16. This problem may be corrected by installing <ulink url="???">this
firewall script</ulink> in /usr/share/shorewall/firewall as
described above.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</section>
<section>
<title>Shorewall 1.4.4</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>If you have zone names that are 5 characters long, you may
experience problems starting Shorewall because the --log-prefix in a
logging rule is too long. Upgrade to Version 1.4.4a to fix this
problem..</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</section>
<section>
<title>Shorewall 1.4.3</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>The LOGMARKER variable introduced in version 1.4.3 was
intended to allow integration of Shorewall with Fireparse
(http://www.firewparse.com). Unfortunately, LOGMARKER only solved
part of the integration problem. I have implimented a new LOGFORMAT
variable which will replace LOGMARKER which has completely solved
this problem and is currently in production with fireparse here at
shorewall.net. The updated files may be found at <ulink
url="ftp://ftp1.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/errata/1.4.3/fireparse/">ftp://ftp1.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/errata/1.4.3/fireparse/</ulink>.
See the 0README.txt file for details.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</section>
<section>
<title>Shorewall 1.4.2</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>When an <quote>add</quote> or <quote>delete</quote> command is
executed, a temporary directory created in /tmp is not being
removed. This problem may be corrected by installing <ulink
url="ftp://ftp.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/errata/1.4.2/firewall">this
firewall script</ulink> in /usr/share/shorewall/firewall as
described above.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</section>
<section>
<title>Shorewall 1.4.1a, 1.4.1 and 1.4.0</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Some TCP requests are rejected in the <quote>common</quote>
chain with an ICMP port-unreachable response rather than the more
appropriate TCP RST response. This problem is corrected in <ulink
url="ftp://ftp.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/errata/1.4.1a/common.def">this
updated common.def file</ulink> which may be installed in
/etc/shorewall/common.def.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</section>
<section>
<title>Shorewall 1.4.1</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>When a <quote>shorewall check</quote> command is executed,
each <quote>rule</quote> produces the harmless additional message:<programlisting>&#x00A0; &#x00A0; &#x00A0;/usr/share/shorewall/firewall: line 2174: [: =: unary operator expected</programlisting>You
may correct the problem by installing <ulink
url="ftp://ftp.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/errata/1.4.1/firewall">this
corrected script</ulink> in /usr/share/shorewall/firewall as
described above.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</section>
<section>
<title>Shorewall 1.4.0</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>When running under certain shells Shorewall will attempt to
create ECN rules even when /etc/shorewall/ecn is empty. You may
either just remove /etc/shorewall/ecn or you can install <ulink
url="http://www.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/errata/1.4.0/firewall">this
correct script</ulink> in /usr/share/shorewall/firewall as described
above.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</section>
</section>
<section>
<title>Upgrade Issues</title>
<para>The upgrade issues have moved to <ulink url="upgrade_issues.htm">a
separate page</ulink>.</para>
</section>
<section>
<title>Problem with iptables version 1.2.3</title>
<para>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.&#x00A0;</para>
<para>I have built a <ulink
url="ftp://ftp.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/errata/iptables-1.2.3-3.i386.rpm">corrected
1.2.3 rpm which you can download here</ulink>&#x00A0; and I have also
built an <ulink
url="ftp://ftp.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/iptables-1.2.4-1.i386.rpm">iptables-1.2.4
rpm which you can download here</ulink>. If you are currently running
RedHat 7.1, you can install either of these RPMs before you upgrade to
RedHat 7.2.</para>
<para><emphasis role="bold">Update 11/9/2001:</emphasis> RedHat has
released an iptables-1.2.4 RPM of their own which you can download from
<ulink url="http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2001-144.html.">http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2001-144.html</ulink>.I
have installed this RPM on my firewall and it works fine.</para>
<para>If you would like to patch iptables 1.2.3 yourself, the patches are
available for download. This <ulink
url="ftp://ftp.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/errata/iptables-1.2.3/loglevel.patch">patch</ulink>
which corrects a problem with parsing of the --log-level specification
while this <ulink
url="ftp://ftp.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/errata/iptables-1.2.3/tos.patch">patch</ulink>
corrects a problem in handling the&#x00A0; TOS target.</para>
<para>To install one of the above patches:<programlisting> cd iptables-1.2.3/extensions
patch -p0 &#60; the-patch-file</programlisting></para>
</section>
<section>
<title>Problems with kernels &#62;= 2.4.18 and RedHat iptables</title>
<para>Users who use RedHat iptables RPMs and who upgrade to kernel
2.4.18/19 may experience the following:</para>
<blockquote>
<programlisting># 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-&#62;info.valid_hooks == (1 &#60;&#60; 0 | 1 &#60;&#60; 3)&#39; failed.
Aborted (core dumped)
iptables: libiptc/libip4tc.c:380: do_check: Assertion
`h-&#62;info.valid_hooks == (1 &#60;&#60; 0 | 1 &#60;&#60; 3)&#39; failed.
Aborted (core dumped)</programlisting>
</blockquote>
<para>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 <quote>mangle</quote> table. You can correct the problem by
installing <ulink
url="http://www.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/iptables-1.2.5-1.i386.rpm">this
iptables RPM</ulink>. If you are already running a 1.2.5 version of
iptables, you will need to specify the --oldpackage option to rpm (e.g.,
<quote>iptables -Uvh --oldpackage iptables-1.2.5-1.i386.rpm</quote>).</para>
</section>
<section>
<title>Problems with iptables version 1.2.7 and MULTIPORT=Yes</title>
<para>The iptables 1.2.7 release of iptables has made an incompatible
change to the syntax used to specify multiport match rules; as a
consequence, if you install iptables 1.2.7 you must be running Shorewall
1.3.7a or later or:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>set MULTIPORT=No in /etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf; or</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>If you are running Shorewall 1.3.6 you may install <ulink
url="http://www.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/errata/1.3.6/firewall">this
firewall script</ulink> in /usr/lib/shorewall/firewall as described
above.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</section>
<section>
<title>Problems with RH Kernel 2.4.18-10 and NAT</title>
<para>/etc/shorewall/nat entries of the following form will result in
Shorewall being unable to start:</para>
<programlisting> #EXTERNAL&#x00A0;&#x00A0;&#x00A0;&#x00A0;&#x00A0;&#x00A0; INTERFACE&#x00A0;&#x00A0;&#x00A0;&#x00A0;&#x00A0;&#x00A0; INTERNAL&#x00A0;&#x00A0;&#x00A0;&#x00A0;&#x00A0;&#x00A0;&#x00A0; ALL INTERFACES&#x00A0;&#x00A0;&#x00A0;&#x00A0;&#x00A0;&#x00A0;&#x00A0;&#x00A0;&#x00A0; LOCAL
192.0.2.22&#x00A0;&#x00A0;&#x00A0; eth0&#x00A0;&#x00A0;&#x00A0; 192.168.9.22&#x00A0;&#x00A0; yes&#x00A0;&#x00A0;&#x00A0;&#x00A0; yes
#LAST LINE -- ADD YOUR ENTRIES ABOVE THIS LINE -- DO NOT REMOVE</programlisting>
<para>Error message is:</para>
<programlisting> Setting up NAT...
iptables: Invalid argument
Terminated</programlisting>
<para>The solution is to put <quote>no</quote> in the LOCAL column. Kernel
support for LOCAL=yes has never worked properly and 2.4.18-10 has disabled
it. The 2.4.19 kernel contains corrected support under a new kernel
configuraiton option; see <ulink
url="http://www.shorewall.net/Documentation.htm#NAT">http://www.shorewall.net/Documentation.htm#NAT</ulink>.</para>
</section>
<section>
<title>Problems with RH Kernels after 2.4.20-9 and REJECT (also applies to
2.4.21-RC1)</title>
<para>Beginning with errata kernel 2.4.20-13.9, <quote>REJECT
--reject-with tcp-reset</quote> is broken. The symptom most commonly seen
is that REJECT rules act just like DROP rules when dealing with TCP. A
kernel patch and precompiled modules to fix this problem are available at
<ulink url="ftp://ftp1.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/errata/kernel">ftp://ftp1.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/errata/kernel</ulink>.</para>
</section>
</article>