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2010-08-26 From 9:00 to 17:00 UTC #fedora-test-day (webirc)
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If you come to this page before or after the test day is completed, your testing is still valuable, and you can use the information on this page to test, file any bugs you find at Bugzilla, and add your results to the results section. If this page is more than a month old when you arrive here, please check the current schedule and see if a similar but more recent Test Day is planned or has already happened.

What to test?

Have you ever used any security scanning application? Does the security configuration of your box matters? Do you want to keep you system in consistent state? If you have positive answer to any of these questions then it's probably worth to joint this Fedora Test Day that will focus on OpenSCAP feature.

What is SCAP? It is a line of standards managed by NIST. It was created to provide a standardized approach to maintaining the security of systems, such as automatically verifying the presence of patches, checking system security configuration settings, and examining systems for signs of compromise.

The SCAP suite contains multiple complex data exchange formats that are to be used to transmit important vulnerability, configuration, and other security data. Historically, there have been few tools that provide a way to query this data in the needed format. This lack of tools makes the barrier to entry very high and discourages adoption of these protocols by the community. It's a goal of OpenSCAP project to create a framework of libraries to improve the accessibility of SCAP and enhance the usability of the information it represents.

Who's available

The following cast of characters will be available testing, workarounds, bug fixes, and general discussion:

  • Development - Peter Vrabec (wrabco), Tomas Heinrich (theinric), Maros Barabas (mbarabas), Daniel Kopecek (dkopecek), Lukas Kuklinek (lkukline)
  • FirstAidKit development - Martin Sivák (msivak)
  • Quality Assurance - Kamil Páral (kparal), Ondrej Moris (omoris)

Prerequisite for Test Day

  • A fully updated Fedora 13 or 14.
    • This must be a real installation, live CDs are unfortunately not suitable for this test day.
    • We are interested in different software setups, so if possible please use your real workstation, rather than clean install of F13 or F14. You don't have to be afraid, this software is not destructive in any way.

How to test?

  1. Fully update your Fedora 13 or Fedora 14.
  2. Install openscap, openscap-utils and openscap-python packages version 0.6.1-1. Download them from: http://people.redhat.com/pvrabec/openscap/
    Packages updated
    Packages have been updated to fix 'buffer overflow' error. Please update if you've downloaded the old ones.
  3. Download required SCAP content: http://people.redhat.com/pvrabec/openscap/content
    Files updated
    SCAP content was updated during this test day. Please update if you've downloaded the old one.
  4. Follow the test cases below.
  5. Write your results to the result matrix.

Test Cases

Please execute as many test cases from the following list of OpenSCAP Test Cases as possible:

Test Results

If you have problems with any of the tests, report a bug to Bugzilla for the openscap component. If you are unsure about exactly how to file the report or what other information to include, just ask on IRC and we will help you. Once you have completed the tests, add your results to the Results table below, following the example results from the first line as a template.

User Fedora default settings Fedora adjusted settings secstate tool References
Sample User
Pass pass
Warning warn
[1]
Fail fail
[2]
  1. ↑ Test pass, but also encountered RHBZ #54321
  2. ↑ RHBZ #12345
newgle1
Fail fail newgle1
[1]
Fail fail newgle1
[1]
none
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 err:*** buffer overflow detected ***: oscap terminated
He Rui
Fail fail rhe
[1]
Fail fail rhe
[2]
none
  1. ↑ buffer overflowed and some rules failed: http://fpaste.org/wSvq/
  2. ↑ tested the rule-2.2.2.3.a (Disable the Automounter if Possible), when I stopped the autofs service as the rules suggested, the result was still 'fail'.(Yum remove autofs can get a 'pass' result)
Jan Kaluza
Fail fail jkaluza
[1]
none
none
  1. ↑ buffer overflowed - RHBZ #627488
Petr Pisar
Fail fail ppisar
[1]
Fail fail ppisar
[2]
Fail fail ppisar
[3]
Pass pass ppisar
[4]
none
none
  1. ↑ Tests checking file permissions (rule-2.2.3.3.a, rule-2.2.3.4.a, rule-2.2.3.4.b, rule-2.2.3.5.a, rule-2.2.3.5.b, rule-2.2.3.6.a) eats all memory (4 GiB) and are terminated by kernel.
  2. ↑ Test rule-2.1.2.3.4.a (Ensure Package Signature Checking is Not Disabled For Any Repos) fails because I have defined rawhide repositories with disabled signature checking and disabled for installation. I think disabled repositories should not be considered in this test.
  3. ↑ Test rule-2.5.1.2.b (Set net.ipv4.conf.all.accept_redirects for Hosts and Routers) fails. This is default value for F13. F13 should be fixed (/etc/sysctl.conf) or the test removed as far as it can be useful in some scenarios (link with more routers, link with more IP networks).
  4. ↑ Other tests passed
Jan Gorig
Fail fail jgorig
[1]
none
none
  1. ↑ same problem - buffer overflowed on x86_64 F13 - RHBZ #627488
Kushal Das
Fail fail kushal
[1]
none
none
  1. ↑ same problem - buffer overflowed on x86 F13 - RHBZ #627488
Miroslav Grepl
Fail fail mgrepl
[1]
none
none
  1. ↑ same problem - buffer overflowed on x86 F13 - RHBZ #627488. Test finished (fixed pkgs from koji)
Ondrej Moriš
Fail fail omoris
[1]
none
none
  1. ↑ test finished (fixed pkgs from koji) with several fails: http://fpaste.org/Sgys/
Masami Ichikawa
Fail fail masami
[1]
none
none
  1. ↑ same problem - buffer overflowed on x86 F14 - RHBZ #627488
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