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authortrevor <trevor@FreeBSD.org>2002-01-10 05:19:39 +0800
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Update to 1.8.
Patch p0f.c to look for the database under $PREFIX (could also be done by setting SYSCONFDIR). Submitted by: lioux Remove duplicate regular expression in do-patch target. Update the README patch (sent to William Stearns). Remove an old "signature" from pkg-descr.
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diff --git a/net-mgmt/p0f/files/patch-README b/net-mgmt/p0f/files/patch-README
index 270fb4e42ac1..6d8750a3529a 100644
--- a/net-mgmt/p0f/files/patch-README
+++ b/net-mgmt/p0f/files/patch-README
@@ -1,78 +1,302 @@
---- README.orig Mon Jun 12 15:28:41 2000
-+++ README Mon Jun 12 21:15:54 2000
-@@ -27,30 +27,31 @@
-
- Background:
+patch to version 1.8.test9
+
+- mention the FreeBSD port
+- mention that BSD make, not just GNU make, is adequate
+- some rewording for clarity, not intended to change meaning
+- reformatting of white space, mostly done with "fmt 79 80"
+- spelling changes, mostly suggested by ispell
+
+--- README.old Thu Nov 22 16:37:28 2001
++++ README Wed Jan 9 12:10:53 2002
+@@ -18,17 +18,17 @@
+ Project Status
+ --------------
+
+- As for today, this packet is hosted and maintained by William Stearns
+- <wstearns@pobox.com>. Original code comes from Michal Zalewski
+- <lcamtuf@coredump.cx>. Feel free to mail William or both of us with
+- bugfixes, ideas, etc =)
++ This program is now hosted and maintained by William Stearns
++ <wstearns@pobox.com>. It was originally written by Michal Zalewski
++ <lcamtuf@coredump.cx>. Feel free to mail William or both of us with
++ bug-fixes, ideas, etc. =)
+
+
+ -----------------
+ Special thanks to
+ -----------------
+
+- * Lance Spitzner for whitepaper on passive OS fingerprinting:
++ * Lance Spitzner for white paper on passive OS fingerprinting:
+ http://www.enteract.com/~lspitz/finger.html
+
+ * tf8 for initial piece of libpcap support and packet parsing
+@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
+ * teso/security.is/b0f/#hax for ideas and testing
+
+ * Jeremy Weatherford, Chris Wilson and Szilveszter Adam for
+- portability testing/patches, bugfixes and ideas,
++ portability testing/patches, bug-fixes and ideas,
+
+ * other BUGTRAQ readers for OS fingerprints and useful patches
+
+@@ -49,126 +49,127 @@
+ Background
+ ----------
- * What is passive OS fingerprinting?
+-
+- Passive OS fingerprinting technique is based on information coming
+- from remote host when it tries to establish a connection to your system.
+- Captured packet parameters contain enough information to determine
+- remote OS - and, unlike active scanners (nmap, queSO) - this is done
+- without sending anything to this host.
+-
+- If you're looking for more information on this approach, read Spitzner's
+- whitepaper at http://www.enteract.com/~lspitz/finger.html :)
+-
+ * What is passive OS fingerprinting?
-
-- Passive OS fingerprinting technique bases on information coming
-- from remote host when it establishes connection to our system. Captured
-- packets contains enough information to determine OS - and, unlike
-- active scanners (nmap, queSO) - without sending anything to this host.
-+ Passive OS fingerprinting is based on information coming from a remote host
-+ when it establishes a connection to our system. Captured packets contain
-+ enough information to identify the operating system. In contrast to active
-+ scanners such as nmap and QueSO, p0f does not send anything to the host being
-+ identified.
-
- If you're looking for more information, read Spitzner's text at:
- http://www.enteract.com/~lspitz/finger.html
-
-- * How it works?
-+ * How does it work?
-
- Well, there are some TCP/IP flag settings specific for given systems.
- Usually initial TTL (8 bits), window size (16 bits), maximum segment size
- (16 bits), don't fragment flag (1 bit), sackOK option (1 bit), nop option
-- (1 bit) and window scaling option (8 bits) combined together gives unique,
-+ (1 bit) and window scaling option (8 bits) combined together give a unique,
- 51-bit signature for every system.
-
++
++ The passive OS fingerprinting technique is based on information coming from a
++ remote host when it tries to establish a connection to your system. Captured
++ packet parameters contain enough information to identify the remote OS. In
++ contrast to active scanners such as nmap and queSO, p0f does this without
++ sending anything to the remote host.
++
++ If you're looking for more information on this approach, read Spitzner's white
++ paper (mentioned above). :)
++
+ In short, there are certain TCP/IP flag settings specific for given systems.
+- Usually initial TTL (8 bits), window size (16 bits), maximum segment size
+- (16 bits), don't fragment flag (1 bit), sackOK option (1 bit), nop option
+- (1 bit), window scaling option (8 bits), initial packet size (16 bits)
+- vary from one TCP stack implementation to another, and, combined together,
+- give unique, 67-bit signature for every system.
+-
+- Some portions of p0f code are currently used by IDS systems and
+- sniffer software.
+-
- * What are main advantages?
-+ * What are the main advantages?
-
+-
- Passive OS fingerprinting can be done on huge portions of input data - eg.
- information gathered on firewall, proxy, routing device or Internet server,
- without causing any network activity. You can launch passive OS detection
- software on such machine and leave it for days, weeks or months, collecting
-+ Passive OS fingerprinting can be done on huge amounts of input data -
-+ gathered on a firewall, proxy, routing device or Internet server - without
-+ causing any network activity. You can launch passive OS detection
-+ software on such a machine and leave it for days or months, collecting
- really interesting statistical and - *erm* - just interesting information.
- What's really funny - packet filtering firewalls, network address
- translation and so on are transparent to p0f-alike software, so you're able
-@@ -62,7 +63,7 @@
+- really interesting statistical information about your customers, about
+- attackers, other servers, etc. What's really funny - packet filtering
+- firewalls, network address translation and so on are almost always
+- transparent to p0f-alike software, so you're able to obtain information
+- about systems behind the firewall. Also, such software can determine
+- distance between remote host and your system, allowing you to generate
+- network structure maps for firewalled/structural networks. And all without
+- sending a single packet. Nice, especially for IDSes.
++ Usually initial TTL (8 bits), window size (16 bits), maximum segment size (16
++ bits), don't fragment flag (1 bit), sackOK option (1 bit), nop option (1 bit),
++ window scaling option (8 bits), and initial packet size (16 bits) vary from
++ one TCP stack implementation to another. Together, they give a unique, 67-bit
++ signature for every system.
++
++ Some portions of the p0f code are currently used by IDS systems and sniffer
++ software.
++
++ * What are the main advantages?
++
++ Passive OS fingerprinting can be done on huge amounts of input data - for
++ example, information gathered on a firewall, proxy, routing device or Internet
++ server - without causing any network activity. You can launch passive OS
++ detection software on such a machine and leave it for days, weeks or months,
++ collecting really interesting statistical information about your customers,
++ attackers, other servers, etc. Since packet filtering firewalls, network
++ address translation and so on are almost always transparent to p0f-alike
++ software, you're able to obtain information about systems behind the firewall.
++ Also, such software can determine the distance between a remote host and your
++ system, allowing you to generate network structure maps for
++ firewalled/structural networks. All this can be done without sending a single
++ packet. It is especially nice for IDSes.
+
+
+ -----------
Limitations
+ -----------
- Proxy firewalls and other high-level proxy devices are not transparent to
-- any tcp fingerprinting software. It applies to p0f, as well.
-+ any TCP fingerprinting software. It applies to p0f, as well.
-
+- Proxy firewalls and other high-level proxy devices are not transparent to
+- any TCP-level fingerprinting software. The device itself will be
+- fingerprinted, not actual source hosts.
+-
++ Proxy firewalls and other high-level proxy devices are not transparent to any
++ TCP-level fingerprinting software. The device itself will be fingerprinted,
++ not actual source hosts.
++
In order to obtain information required for fingerprinting, you have to
- receive at least one SYN packet initializing TCP connection to your
-@@ -78,9 +79,9 @@
- window size are constant for initial TCP/IP packet, but changing rapidly
- later).
-
--Why our bubble gum is better?
-+Why is our bubble gum better?
-
+- receive at least one SYN packet initializing TCP connection to your
+- machine or network. Note: you don't have to respond to particular SYN.
+- Of course, it's impossible to perform any kind of OS detection witout
+- receiving any information.
+-
+- It is possible to perform passive fingerprinting on live TCP connection, or
+- on a connection established by you to a remote host. However, these
+- techniques are less reliable (many implementations copy parameters from
+- the first SYN packet; other parameters change rapidly with time).
+-
+-
+------------------------------------------
+-Is there anything special about this one?
+------------------------------------------
+-
- There is another passive OS detection utility, called 'siphon'. It's
-+ There is another passive OS detection utility, called 'siphon'. It's a
- pretty good piece of proof-of-concept software, but it isn't perfect. Well,
- p0f isn't perfect for sure, but has several improvements:
-
-@@ -128,8 +129,8 @@
-
- Files:
+- pretty good piece of proof-of-concept software, but it isn't perfect. Well,
+- p0f isn't perfect for sure, but features some improvements:
+-
++ receive at least one SYN packet initializing TCP connection to your machine or
++ network. Note: you don't have to respond to this particular SYN. Of course,
++ it's impossible to perform any kind of OS detection without receiving any
++ information.
++
++ It is possible to perform passive fingerprinting on a live TCP connection, or
++ on a connection established by you to a remote host. However, these techniques
++ are less reliable (many implementations copy parameters from the first SYN
++ packet; other parameters change rapidly with time).
++
++
++---------------------------------------------
++Is there anything special about this program?
++---------------------------------------------
++
++ There is another passive OS detection utility, called 'siphon'. It's a pretty
++ good piece of proof-of-concept software, but it isn't perfect. Well, p0f
++ isn't perfect for sure, but features some improvements:
++
+ - it's single-threaded and pretty clean,
+-
++
+ - works properly on Linuxes (siphon has a problem with bpf on 2.2), as
+ well as on BSD systems and SunOS/Solaris,
+-
++
+ - has pretty large and detailed fingerprints database,
+-
++
+ - uses more information for fingerprinting (42 extra bits),
+-
++
+ - it's more accurate,
+-
++
+ - you can define your own filtering rules in the tcpdump flavour:
+- p0f 'src host 1.2.3.4' or p0f 'gateway 1.2.3.4 and port 80', and
+- listening interface (using option -i).
+-
+- What more? Dunno :) Simply, check it out.
++ p0f 'src host 1.2.3.4' or p0f 'gateway 1.2.3.4 and port 80', and listening
++ interface (using option -i).
++
++ What more? Dunno. :) Simply, check it out.
+
+
+ ------------
+ Not working!
+ ------------
+
+- Probably p0f isn't working well on every platform in the world; first
+- of all, you'll need libpcap 0.4 or newer; sometimes pcap.h is placed in
+- /usr/include/pcap instead of /usr/include/ (eg. in broken RH 6.1 package).
+- In this case, simply issue:
+-
+- ln -s /usr/include/pcap/pcap.h /usr/include/
+- ln -s /usr/include/pcap/net/bpf.h /usr/include/net/
+-
+- NOTE: if p0f recognized system incorrectly or cannot recognize it at all,
+- please send OS signature and system description to author. Thanks :)
+-
++ Probably p0f isn't working well on every platform in the world. First of all,
++ you'll need libpcap 0.4 or newer; sometimes pcap.h is placed in
++ /usr/include/pcap instead of /usr/include/ (for example, in the broken Red Hat
++ 6.1 package). In this case, simply issue:
++
++ ln -s /usr/include/pcap/pcap.h /usr/include/
++ ln -s /usr/include/pcap/net/bpf.h /usr/include/net/
++
++ NOTE: if p0f recognized the system incorrectly or cannot recognize it at all,
++ please send the OS signature and system description to the author. Thanks. :)
++
+ Tested platforms:
+
+ - NetBSD
+ - FreeBSD
++ in the ports collection
+ - OpenBSD
+ - Linux 2.0/2.2/2.4
+ http://www.stearns.org/p0f/
+ - Solaris 2.6-2.7
+ - LinuxPPC
+ http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/linuxPPC/contrib/software/Applications/Networking/p0f-1.7-0.ppc.html
+-
+- Requires: libpcap 0.4 or newer; GNU cc 2.7.x or newer; GNU make 3.7x;
+- GNU egrep (for proper Makefile processing)
+
+-
++ Requires: libpcap 0.4 or newer; GNU cc 2.7.x or newer; GNU make 3.7x or BSD
++ make; GNU egrep (for proper Makefile processing)
++
++
+ -------------
+ Configuration
+ -------------
- /etc/p0f.fp or ./p0f.fp - OS fingerprints database. Format is described
- inside:
-+ /etc/p0f.fp or ./p0f.fp - OS fingerprints database.
-+ The format is described inside:
-
- # Valid entry describes the way server starts TCP handshake (first SYN).
- # Important options are: window size (wss), maximum segment size (mss),
+-
++ The database of OS fingerprints is usually kept in /etc/p0f.fp or ./p0f.fp .
++ Its format is described below:
++
+ #
+ # p0f - passive OS fingerprinting
+ # -------------------------------
+@@ -208,9 +209,9 @@
+ # W - window scaling (-1=not present, other=value)
+ # S - sackOK flag (0=unset, 1=set)
+ # N - nop flag (0=unset, 1=set)
+- # I - declared packet size (-1 = irrevelant)
++ # I - declared packet size (-1 = irrelevant)
+ #
+-
++
+
+ --------------------
+ What should be done?
+@@ -218,22 +219,22 @@
+
+ - Colorful interface, of course ;)
+ - Packet sizes added for old fingerprints
+- - Manpage and other user-friendly features
++ - Man page and other user-friendly features
+
+
+ -------------------
+ License, disclaimer
+ -------------------
+
+- The p0f utility and related utilities are free software; you can
+- redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Library
+- General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation;
+- either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+-
+- THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS
+- OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
+- FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL
+- MICHAL ZALEWSKI, OR ANY OTHER CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM,
+- DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR
+- OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE
+- OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
++ The p0f utility and related utilities are free software; you can redistribute
++ it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License
++ as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License,
++ or (at your option) any later version.
++
++ THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
++ IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
++ FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL
++ MICHAL ZALEWSKI, OR ANY OTHER CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR
++ OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
++ FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS
++ IN THE SOFTWARE.