Re: Local Security Checks for OSX 10.4 and 10.5 broken

Renaud Deraison <[email protected]> Thu, 6 Nov 2008 11:50:33 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.nessus.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>

Hi Ron,

We can not reproduce your problem here (tested against 10.5.5 with  
both password authentication and public key authentication).

Are you doing a key authentication or a password-based one? If it's a  
public key authentication, i'd be interested in seeing the format of  
the public key you're using (you can send it to me privately)


Thanks,

					-- Renaud


On Nov 6, 2008, at 12:07 AM, Ron wrote:

> I am supporting a sysadmin with 70 OSX workstations and servers.  I  
> have installed Nessus 3.2.1 client and server on the admin host.  I  
> can reliability perform a Local Security Check on some OSX boxes and  
> not others..  They are all either Tiger (10.4.11) or Leopard  
> (10..5.5).  I have tried both SSH username/passwords and public/ 
> private keys authentication with identical results.   In addition, I  
> can always connect with "ssh" directly with either username/password  
> and Pub/private keys.
>
> Even though my "ssh/sshd" is current (OpenSSH 5.1), possibly Nessus  
> itself is using it's own "ssh" client internal to Nessus itself.   
> Maybe there is a problem there.
>
> I think I have followed the "Nessus Credential Checks for Unix and  
> Windows" exactly.  But obviously something is wrong.  I'm open to  
> any ideas.
>
> Thanks
>
> Ron
> [email protected]
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Here's a dump of the failed login from /var/log/secure.log using PKI
>
> Nov  5 10:57:47 clusterg4-350-5 sshd[2952]: reverse mapping checking  
> getaddrinfo for host.company.netl [172.17.119.27] failed - POSSIBLE  
> BREAK-IN ATTEMPT!
> Nov  5 10:57:47 clusterg4-350-5 sshd[2952]: Accepted publickey for  
> zeus from 172.17.119.27 port 61466 ssh2
> Nov  5 10:57:47 clusterg4-350-5 sshd[2952]: error: BSM audit:  
> bsm_audit_session_setup: setaudit_addr failed: Function not  
> implemented
> Nov  5 11:01:41 clusterg4-350-5 sshd[2958]: Did not receive  
> identification string from 172.17.119.27
> Nov  5 11:01:41 clusterg4-350-5 sshd[2959]: Did not receive  
> identification string from 172.17.119.27
> Nov  5 11:01:41 clusterg4-350-5 sshd[2960]: Did not receive  
> identification string from 172.17.119.27
> Nov  5 11:01:42 clusterg4-350-5 sshd[2961]: Did not receive  
> identification string from 172.17.119.27
> Nov  5 11:01:42 clusterg4-350-5 sshd[2962]: Did not receive  
> identification string from 172.17.119.27
> Nov  5 11:01:43 clusterg4-350-5 sshd[2963]: Did not receive  
> identification string from 172.17.119.27
> Nov  5 11:01:44 clusterg4-350-5 sshd[2964]: Did not receive  
> identification string from 172.17.119.27
> Nov  5 11:01:44 clusterg4-350-5 sshd[2965]: Did not receive  
> identification string from 172.17.119.27
> Nov  5 11:02:14 clusterg4-350-5 sshd[2969]: Did not receive  
> identification string from 172.17.119.27
> Nov  5 11:02:34 clusterg4-350-5 sshd[2976]: Protocol major versions  
> differ for 172.17.119.27: SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_5.1 vs. SSH-9.9- 
> NessusSSH_1.0
> Nov  5 11:02:34 clusterg4-350-5 sshd[2978]: Protocol major versions  
> differ for 172.17.119.27: SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_5.1 vs. SSH-1.33- 
> NessusSSH_1.0
> Nov  5 11:02:34 clusterg4-350-5 sshd[2980]: Protocol major versions  
> differ for 172.17.119.27: SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_5.1 vs. SSH-1.5- 
> NessusSSH_1.0
> Nov  5 11:02:44 clusterg4-350-5 sshd[2975]: Did not receive  
> identification string from 172.17.119.27
> Nov  5 11:02:45 clusterg4-350-5 sshd[2995]: Protocol major versions  
> differ for 172.17.119.27: SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_5.1 vs. SSH-9.9- 
> NessusSSH_1.0
> Nov  5 11:02:45 clusterg4-350-5 sshd[2996]: Protocol major versions  
> differ for 172.17.119.27: SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_5.1 vs. SSH-1.33- 
> NessusSSH_1.0
> Nov  5 11:02:45 clusterg4-350-5 sshd[2997]: Protocol major versions  
> differ for 172.17.119.27: SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_5.1 vs. SSH-1.5- 
> NessusSSH_1.0
> Nov  5 11:03:14 clusterg4-350-5 sshd[3001]: Did not receive  
> identification string from 172.17.119.27
> Nov  5 11:03:14 clusterg4-350-5 sshd[3002]: Did not receive  
> identification string from 172.17.119.27
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Here's a dump from from a successful pki login
>
> Nov  5 10:57:30 Schillingmac sshd[7092]: Accepted publickey for scan  
> from 172.17.119.27 port 61362 ssh2
> Nov  5 10:57:30 Schillingmac sshd[7092]: error: BSM audit:  
> bsm_audit_session_setup: setaudit_addr failed: Function not  
> implemented
> Nov  5 10:57:35 Schillingmac sshd[7096]: Protocol major versions  
> differ for 172.17.119.27: SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_5.1 vs. SSH-9.9- 
> NessusSSH_1.0
> Nov  5 10:57:35 Schillingmac sshd[7099]: Protocol major versions  
> differ for 172.17.119.27: SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_5.1 vs. SSH-1.33- 
> NessusSSH_1.0
> Nov  5 10:57:35 Schillingmac sshd[7100]: Protocol major versions  
> differ for 172.17.119.27: SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_5.1 vs. SSH-1.5- 
> NessusSSH_1.0
> Nov  5 10:57:36 Schillingmac sshd[7097]: reverse mapping checking  
> getaddrinfo for host.company.net [172.17.119.27] failed - POSSIBLE  
> BREAK-IN ATTEMPT!
> Nov  5 10:57:36 Schillingmac sshd[7103]: reverse mapping checking  
> getaddrinfo for host.company.net [172.17.119.27] failed - POSSIBLE  
> BREAK-IN ATTEMPT!
> Nov  5 10:57:36 Schillingmac com.apple.SecurityServer: authinternal  
> failed to authenticate user root.
> Nov  5 10:57:36 Schillingmac com.apple.SecurityServer: Failed to  
> authorize right system.login.tty by process /usr/sbin/sshd for  
> authorization created by /usr/sbin/sshd.
> Nov  5 10:57:37 Schillingmac sshd[7097]: Failed password for root  
> from 172.17.119.27 port 61368 ssh2
> Nov  5 10:57:37 Schillingmac sshd[7107]: reverse mapping checking  
> getaddrinfo for host.company.net [172.17.119.27] failed - POSSIBLE  
> BREAK-IN ATTEMPT!
> Nov  5 10:57:37 Schillingmac sshd[7108]: reverse mapping checking  
> getaddrinfo for host.company.net [172.17.119.27] failed - POSSIBLE  
> BREAK-IN ATTEMPT!
> Nov  5 10:57:37 Schillingmac sshd[7108]: Invalid user  from  
> 172.17.119.27
> Nov  5 10:57:37 Schillingmac sshd[7108]: Failed none for invalid  
> user  from 172.17.119.27 port 61378 ssh2
> Nov  5 10:57:37 Schillingmac sshd[7095]: Did not receive  
> identification string from 172.17.119.27
> Nov  5 10:57:37 Schillingmac com.apple.SecurityServer: authinternal  
> failed to authenticate user root.
> Nov  5 10:57:37 Schillingmac com.apple.SecurityServer: Failed to  
> authorize right system.login.tty by process /usr/sbin/sshd for  
> authorization created by /usr/sbin/sshd.
>
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