General

New csf v2.68 – Major Security Fix

Changes:

  • Security Fix – If you have LF_DIRWATCH_DISABLE on then this can lead to arbitray code being executed in the context of the user running lfd, i.e. root. This option has been disabled in the code until further notice. You will have to manually remove any reported files.
  • Tightened csf file ownerships on installation

*ALL INSTALLATIONS SHOULD BE UPGRADED ASAP TO AVOID POTENTIAL EXPLOITATION*You can upgrade csf either through WHM or from the root shell using:

csf -u

New csf v2.66

Changes:

  • Modified LF_CPANEL text in csf.conf for new installations to reflect the change in the SSL login handling by cPanel (i.e. it does now log SSL login IP’s)
  • Modified the log line monitoring in lfd to cope with log line flooding to prevent looping/excessive resource usage. Also recoded without the use of the POSIX routines
  • lfd process name now shows which log file it is scanning

New csf v2.65

Changes:

  • New Feature: System Integrity Checking. This enables lfd to compare md5sums of the servers OS binary application files from the time when lfd starts. If the md5sum of a monitored file changes an alert is sent. This option is intended as an IDS (Intrusion Detection System) and is the last line of detection for a

New csf v2.64

Changes:

  • Modified lfd check for rotated system logs to re-open a log file if logs are emptied instead of rotated

New csf v2.63

Changes:

  • Added regex support for uw-imap (imap and pop3) login failures
  • Added regex support for proftpd login failures
  • Timeout version check incase version server is unavailable

Ouch, that hurt!

Our apologies if you’ve been trying to contact us today. We had a main hard drive failure on our configserver/waytotheweb server which took us down for a while.Many thanks to our server provider Coreix for their very prompt work in getting us back up with a new disk.I then had the fun of running our own restore service on our own server ;)Well, we’re back up and running now 😀

New csf v2.62

Changes:

  • Fixed CIDR support issue with csf.ignore only recognising the first listed entry

New csf v2.61

Changes:

  • Fixed problem (that happened on some OS’s) with lfd not being killed by /etc/init.d/lfd

New csf v2.60

Changes and additional OS support:

  • Added log file locations to csf.conf
  • openSUSE v10 compatible (generic)
  • Debian v3.1 (sarge) compatible (generic)
  • Unbuntu v6.06 LTS compatible (generic)
  • Added installation check for the LWP (libwww-perl) perl module
  • Ran spell checker against the readme.txt file

ConfigServer cPanel Services

We’ve decided to simplify our cPanel Server Service packages to a single package (with a MailScanner option). This has been done for a one main reason – we’ve found that many people who were purchasing the smaller packages were needing the security features of the large packages and weren’t benefitting from them, frequently purchasing additional services from us to bring their servers up to the Full Service spec.To better service our customers we’ve created a single package that tackles all of the apsects of server security and management that we deal with. We’ve reduced the price of what was the cPanel Full Service package for the new all encompassing package.We have not removed any features at all whilst doing this.We hope the change benefits our customers in making their servers more secure and managable.