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Home Page: http://iptables.isabelle.systems/
License: BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" License
Verified iptables Firewall Ruleset Analysis
Home Page: http://iptables.isabelle.systems/
License: BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" License
Over the last releases, the performance both of the Isabelle tests and the Haskell tool declined. My guess: this is related to the upcoming support of IPv6. In general, since we support IP addresses as machine words of arbitrary (but fixed) length, performance declined.
It would be interested to profile and inspect the generated Haskell code in detail. I guess there are also many performance issues nor related to the machine word implementation. Next, hot sports with poorly performing of inefficient code need to be tuned. Of course, we want to prove that the new and efficient code computes exactly the same things as the old code. Isabelle, here we come :-)
This feature can also be implemented as part of a thesis or interdisciplinary project at Technische Universität München.
Typing
./dist/build/iptables/iptables [tab][tab]
does not attempt to auto-complete filenames.
Shell: bash
System: Ubuntu
Bug caused by: Programmable bash completion
Bug description: the executable is called iptables
. Because of the programmable completion feature of bash, the shell thinks I'm using /sbin/iptables which does not need a file as argument. Consequently, it will not auto-complete file names and paths.
Fix: rename binary.
New name: fffuu -- Fancy Formal Firewall Universal Understander
Wouldn't it be great if this tool also supports the BSD pf firewall?
We need:
Pull requests welcome :-)
Interested? I am happy to help. Send me an email: http://www.net.in.tum.de/de/mitarbeiter/diekmann/
This feature can also be implemented as part of a thesis or interdisciplinary project at Technische Universität München.
Currently, the service matrices (build_ip_partition_pretty) are just dumped as plain text. They could be perfectly visualized as graph. My idea: dump them as dot and run graphviz afterwards.
Code can also be added to the isabelle theories to prepare the output.
Example:
8c42c50526a8.txt
In addition: is_iface_char needs '-'
Thanks to @jcaesar for reporting.
TODO: test on both haskell and SML, emit suitable error messages.
Once the ports have been normalized, new matches on negated protocols may be introduced. We just need an additional round of protocol optimization to remove impossible matches.
Example:
*filter
:INPUT DROP [0:0]
:FORWARD DROP [0:0]
:OUTPUT DROP [0:0]
-A INPUT -p tcp -m multiport ! --dports 80,443,6667,6697 -m hashlimit --hashlimit-above 10/sec --hashlimit-burst 20 --hashlimit-mode srcip --hashlimit-name aflood --hashlimit-srcmask 8 -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -p udp -m multiport ! --dports 80,443,6667,6697 -m hashlimit --hashlimit-above 10/sec --hashlimit-burst 20 --hashlimit-mode srcip --hashlimit-name aflood --hashlimit-srcmask 8 -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -p icmp -m hashlimit --hashlimit-above 10/sec --hashlimit-burst 20 --hashlimit-mode srcip --hashlimit-name aflood --hashlimit-srcmask 8 -j ACCEPT
COMMIT
Output:
== unfolded INPUT chain (upper closure) ==
sanity_wf_ruleset passed
(! -p tcp -p tcp, -j ACCEPT)
(-m tcp --dpts [0:79] -p tcp, -j ACCEPT)
(-m tcp --dpts [81:442] -p tcp, -j ACCEPT)
(-m tcp --dpts [444:6666] -p tcp, -j ACCEPT)
(-m tcp --dpts [6668:6696] -p tcp, -j ACCEPT)
(-m tcp --dpts [6698:65535] -p tcp, -j ACCEPT)
(! -p udp -p udp, -j ACCEPT)
(-m udp --dpts [0:79] -p udp, -j ACCEPT)
(-m udp --dpts [81:442] -p udp, -j ACCEPT)
(-m udp --dpts [444:6666] -p udp, -j ACCEPT)
(-m udp --dpts [6668:6696] -p udp, -j ACCEPT)
(-m udp --dpts [6698:65535] -p udp, -j ACCEPT)
(-p icmp, -j ACCEPT)
(, -j DROP)
Do you see the impossible tcp
and not tcp
match. This rule needs to be gone.
This may be an ideal example to get started ;-)
Be warned, you will need to push a lot of invariants through a lot of theorems and functions!
The simple firewall just removes the match on negated protocols and the first rule will match all tcp
packets. This is a sound overapproximation but we can do way better (by just removing this rule).
ACCEPT tcp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0
ACCEPT tcp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 dports: 0:79
ACCEPT tcp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 dports: 81:442
ACCEPT tcp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 dports: 444:6666
ACCEPT tcp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 dports: 6668:6696
ACCEPT tcp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 dports: 6698:65535
ACCEPT udp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0
ACCEPT udp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 dports: 0:79
ACCEPT udp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 dports: 81:442
ACCEPT udp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 dports: 444:6666
ACCEPT udp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 dports: 6668:6696
ACCEPT udp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 dports: 6698:65535
ACCEPT icmp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0
DROP all -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0
This is a real-world example: http://serverfault.com/questions/793631/iptables-multiport-and-negation/795234
THIS HAS BEEN FIXED, remaining issue below
Checking for firewall best practices would be a nice enhancement.
Pull requests welcome :-)
Interested? I am happy to help. Send me an email: http://www.net.in.tum.de/de/mitarbeiter/diekmann/
This feature can also be implemented as part of a thesis or interdisciplinary project at Technische Universität München.
Move the Isabelle/haskellLookAndFeel to its own thy or remove them.
Maybe add it to a HSCompat.thy (Haskell Compatibility) and have const
and split
qualified?
@jcaesar will take care of this :-)
We can calculate the access control matrix for a fixed service. This answers for example the question "who is allowed to set up ssh connections with whom?".
For this feature, we want to answer the question for any any service: "Who is allowed to set up connections with which services with whom?".
Pull requests welcome :-)
Interested? I am happy to help. Send me an email: http://www.net.in.tum.de/de/mitarbeiter/diekmann/
This feature can also be implemented as part of a thesis or interdisciplinary project at Technische Universität München.
We want a fully verified converter that translates rulestes from your proprietary firewall to an open source firewall. This needs:
Pull requests welcome :-)
Interested? I am happy to help. Send me an email: http://www.net.in.tum.de/de/mitarbeiter/diekmann/
This feature can also be implemented as part of a thesis or interdisciplinary project at Technische Universität München.
The following firewall, in the FORWARD
chain accepts everything from TCP srcport 22 and UDP dstport 80. It drops everything else.
*filter
:INPUT ACCEPT [0:0]
:FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0]
:OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0]
:CHAIN - [0:0]
-A FORWARD -j CHAIN
-A CHAIN -p tcp -m tcp --sport 22 -j RETURN
-A CHAIN -p udp -m udp --dport 80 -j RETURN
-A CHAIN -j DROP
COMMIT
However, the simple firewall looks as follows:
DROP all -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 sports: 0:21 dports: 0:79
DROP all -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 sports: 0:21 dports: 81:65535
DROP all -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 sports: 23:65535 dports: 0:79
DROP all -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 sports: 23:65535 dports: 81:65535
ACCEPT all -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0
This simple firewall accepts everything from srcport 22 to dstport 80, for any protocol!
This is because the model allows to consider ports independent from the protocol. When doing algebra on match expressions, it may be possible to construct rules which separate the protocol and the port match. The problem exists already before the simple firewall:
(! -p tcp ! -p udp, -j DROP)
(--dpts [0:79] ! -p tcp, -j DROP)
(--dpts [81:65535] ! -p tcp, -j DROP)
(--spts [0:21] ! -p udp, -j DROP)
(--spts [23:65535] ! -p udp, -j DROP)
(--dpts [0:79] --spts [0:21], -j DROP)
(--dpts [81:65535] --spts [0:21], -j DROP)
(--dpts [0:79] --spts [23:65535], -j DROP)
(--dpts [81:65535] --spts [23:65535], -j DROP)
(, -j ACCEPT)
Note that the resulting firewall is syntactically invalid since it matches on ports without matching on protocols. This can be easily seen and a validity constraint already exists in the thy for some time.
The fix is that we check for syntactic validity and abort if we cannot handle the firewall. So our tool is still safe to use :-) Check will soon be merged to master.
The check in the thy examples has been there all the time.
One fix would be to change the parser to only recognize tcp ports. Then the tool would abstract over udp ports, which is fine (but looses some accuracy). A long term goal would be to have independent fields for tcp and udp ports in the model. (The best model would probably be where the protocol field is enhanced with port numbers)
The semantics and the analysis algorithms do not support packet modification. Consequently, this tool is mainly applicable for the iptables filter table. It would be nice to add support for packet modification, for example NAT.
This would automatically add support for the other iptables tables: raw, mangle, nat, ...
My idea would be to add an outer semantics: The outer semantics calls the (inner) semantics (the one we have: without packet modification) until a rule which modifies the packet occurs. Then the packet is modified and the inner semantics is called again with the modified packet. This should match pretty much the model of several tables used by iptables.
Hopefully, the outer (wrapper) semantics enables reuse of all existing analysis algorithms we already have without the need to modify them.
Pull requests welcome :-)
Interested? I am happy to help. Send me an email: http://www.net.in.tum.de/de/mitarbeiter/diekmann/
This feature can also be implemented as part of a thesis or interdisciplinary project at Technische Universität München.
Besides source (--sports) or destination ports (--dports) multiport exstenion also has --ports option (match either the source or destination ports).
http://ipset.netfilter.org/iptables-extensions.man.html#lbBM
It would be great if you could add it to the parser.
Probably a user does not want to write the ipassmt
by hand.
rp_filter
does.Interface_Replace.thy
(for input interfaces) also for output interfaces using a routing table?I'm hoping for a pull request by @jcaesar :-)
While being harder to administrate than stateful firewalls, stateless firewalls may be faster. This is in particular important if someone is trying to DOS a firewall. Can we translate a stateful ruleset into a stateless ruleset on the fly to withstand the DOS attack? Does this really help?
Pull requests welcome :-)
Interested? I am happy to help. Send me an email: http://www.net.in.tum.de/de/mitarbeiter/diekmann/
This feature can also be implemented as part of a thesis or interdisciplinary project at Technische Universität München.
This feature requires
Will be implemented on by ongy.
The check for spoofing protection returns false. Can it also provide a counter example? In general, can we provide examples of packets which are accepted/dropped by the firewall?
Pull requests welcome :-)
Interested? I am happy to help. Send me an email: http://www.net.in.tum.de/de/mitarbeiter/diekmann/
This feature can also be implemented as part of a thesis or interdisciplinary project at Technische Universität München.
When talking about filtering behavior, the actions ULOG
, NFLOG
, and LOG
all behave equally: They only log (somehow) and do not influence the filtering behavior. The parser (tokenizer) should recognize them all as just LOG
.
At the moment, the tool refuses analysis because it does not know the actions NFLOG
and ULOG
.
This needs to implemented both in the SML parser and the haskell tool. The parser tester needs test cases for this.
The fffuu Haskell tool fails with the error message "undefined" if some precondition of the Isabelle-generated code does not hold. For example, Isabelle assumes that an ipassmt does not have wildcard interface names in it. For safety reasons, the Isabelle-generated code checks preconditions at runtime. If it fails, it just aborts with "undefined". There are many different cases how this undefined can be triggered. It is almost impossible to debug which "undefined" triggered. Feature request: human-readable error messages for each undefined!
Title says everything. This shouldn't be too hard, most internals already work on machine words of arbitrary length. Most complicated part will probably be the toString and fromString functions because IPv6 address notation is significantly more complex than IPv4 dotted-decimal. Yes, we also want this to be formally verified :-)
Make it easier for regular users to obtain fffuu
.
Distribute binaries. Pre-compiled and statically linked such that they can just be run on most Linux systems. We don't want to force the user to install cabal and ghc just to use fffuu
(since we need quite recent versions of them; only pretty old versions of them are shipped with most stable branches of Linux distributions).
About trust: Paranoid user can build from source. A user who accepts binaries in general probably doesn't want to run an arbitrary binary (which is hosted in the cloud). Let's assume a user trusts our github page. Then we can add the sha256sum of the binary to our github. Github uses https, so the sha256 is transmitted somewhat securely.
Q: How can we always get the latest build (of master) to the github homepage? Automatically?
Q: How can we get the sha256 sum of the binary to github. In particular, if we will build somewhere in the cloud?
A semantics for OpenFlow flow table entries and packet processing and a translation from iptables to those flow tables.
Currently being worked on by @jcaesar .
https://github.com/jcaesar/Iptables_Semantics/tree/openflow/thy/OpenFlow
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