Atomic mod security rules

ConfigServer ModSecurity Control provides an easy way of monitoring which rules are being triggered on the server in real time but more importantly, you can whitelist certain rules either globally accross the entire server or on a per account/domain basis if some of the rules conflict with a particular script or functionality (e.g. FrontPage). To install CMC, run the following:

rm -fv cmc.tgz

wget http://www.configserver.com/free/cmc.tgz
tar -xzf cmc.tgz
cd cmc
sh install.sh
cd ..
rm -Rfv cmc/ cmc.tgz
If you log in to WHM you will now see “ConfigServer ModSec Control” under “Plugins”. It’s important that you click on it because when it’s run the first time, it will create the file “modsec2.whitelist.conf” if it doesn’t already exist. If that file doesn’t exist then you’ll find Apache won’t start when we come to the end of this guide. Also while you’re here, click on “Disable modsecparse.pl”. This will disable the cPanel cron job that processes and empties the mod_security log, allowing you to use the log watching tool built in to CMC.

As to help our VPS and Dedicated Server customers who might also be effected by this we have designed the following guide to make installing Atmoic Mod Security into cPanel with little to no fuss.

Stage 1: Run the following commands at command line:

mkdir /var/asl
mkdir /var/asl/tmp
mkdir /var/asl/data
mkdir /var/asl/data/msa
mkdir /var/asl/data/audit
mkdir /var/asl/data/suspicious
chown nobody.nobody /var/asl/data/msa
chown nobody.nobody /var/asl/data/audit
chown nobody.nobody /var/asl/data/suspicious
chmod o-rx -R /var/asl/data/*
chmod ug+rwx -R /var/asl/data/*
mkdir /var/asl/updates
mkdir /var/asl/rules/
mkdir /var/asl/rules/clamav
mkdir /etc/asl/
touch /etc/asl/whitelist
cd /usr/local/src/
wget http://updates.atomicorp.com/channels/rules/delayed/modsec-2.7-free-latest.tar.gz
tar zxvf modsec-2.7-free-latest.tar.gz
mkdir /usr/local/apache/conf/modsec_rules/
cp modsec/* /usr/local/apache/conf/modsec_rules/
These command will create the required directory’s and download the latest free version of the Atomic Mod Security rules. It will also directly install them into the location of Apache designed for cPanel and configure the permission.

Stage 2: Configure cPanel to use the Mod Security Rules

In this stage, you can do everything from WHM as long as you have Mod Security already installed as part of your EasyApache build. If you do not, you will need to rebuild apache with Mod Security.

In go to: WHM -> Plugins -> Mod Security and then click: Edit Config

In this section, delete all the current content and then paste in the following configuration:

SecRequestBodyAccess On
SecAuditLogType Concurrent
SecResponseBodyAccess On
SecResponseBodyMimeType (null) text/html text/plain text/xml
SecResponseBodyLimit 2621440
SecAuditLogRelevantStatus "^(?:5|4(?!04))"
SecServerSignature Apache
SecUploadDir /var/asl/data/suspicious
SecUploadKeepFiles Off
SecAuditLogParts ABIFHZ
SecArgumentSeparator "&"
SecCookieFormat 0
SecRequestBodyInMemoryLimit 131072
SecDataDir /var/asl/data/msa
SecTmpDir /tmp
SecAuditLogStorageDir /var/asl/data/audit
SecResponseBodyLimitAction ProcessPartial

Include /usr/local/apache/conf/modsec_rules/10_asl_antimalware.conf
Include /usr/local/apache/conf/modsec_rules/10_asl_rules.conf
Include /usr/local/apache/conf/modsec_rules/20_asl_useragents.conf
Include /usr/local/apache/conf/modsec_rules/30_asl_antispam.conf
Include /usr/local/apache/conf/modsec_rules/50_asl_rootkits.conf
Include /usr/local/apache/conf/modsec_rules/60_asl_recons.conf
Include /usr/local/apache/conf/modsec_rules/99_asl_jitp.conf
Include /usr/local/apache/conf/modsec2.whitelist.conf
Save this and restart Apache.

This should now have successfully installed the Atomic mod security rules into cPanel which are a much more secure rule base and include extra protection which is important for the latest hacks.

Testing

http://YOUR_HOST/foo.php?foo=http://www.example.com

should give 403

odbctest.php test page

--- begin odbctest.php---
<?
// connect to DSN MSSQL with a user and password
$connect = odbc_connect("MSSQLServer", "username", "password") or die
  ("couldn't connect");
odbc_exec($connect, "use Northwind");
$result = odbc_exec($connect, "SELECT CompanyName, ContactName " .
        "FROM Suppliers");
while(odbc_fetch_row($result)){
  print(odbc_result($result, "CompanyName") .
        ' ' . odbc_result($result, "ContactName") . "<br>\n");
}
odbc_free_result($result);
odbc_close($connect);
?>
--- end odbctest.php --

GRsec patched kernel install

Fetch the sources:

Download kernel from kernel.org

#wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/longterm/v2.6.32/linux-2.6.32.51.tar.gz

Downlaod latest Grsecurity patch from below URL :

#wget http://grsecurity.net/stable/grsecurity-2.2.2-2.6.32.51-201201021326.patch

Extract:
tar xjf linux-2.6.32.51.tar.gz

Patch the kernel:

#cd linux-2.6.32.51

#patch -p1 < ../grsecurity-2.2.2-2.6.32.51-201201021326.patch

Now start making the kernel :

# make clean && make mrproper

Edit your kernel as per your need :

# make menuconfig

Compile your kernel and install it:

# make bzImage

# make modules

# make modules_install

Make sure it’s working ok with the help of following command :

# depmod 2.6.32.51-grsec

Installing and booting the new kernel :

# cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32.51-grsec

There is also a file called “System.map” that must be copied to the same boot directory.

# cp System.map /boot

Do not forget to make changes in /etc/grub.conf

also go to grub prompt after this and fire below command :

# grub > savedefault –-default=0 –-once

Now reboot server :

#Shutdown -r now.