Bug 552621 - rkhunter complaining about hidden ssh hmac files
Summary: rkhunter complaining about hidden ssh hmac files
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: rkhunter
Version: 11
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Kevin Fenzi
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-01-05 17:10 UTC by long
Modified: 2010-02-28 05:39 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2010-02-28 05:39:06 UTC
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Description long 2010-01-05 17:10:58 UTC
Description of problem:
When rkhunter runs it complains:
Warning: Hidden file found: /usr/bin/.ssh-keygen.hmac: ASCII text
Warning: Hidden file found: /usr/bin/.ssh-keyscan.hmac: ASCII text
Warning: Hidden file found: /usr/bin/.ssh-add.hmac: ASCII text
Warning: Hidden file found: /usr/bin/.ssh-agent.hmac: ASCII text

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rkhunter-1.3.6-2.fc11.noarch

How reproducible:
Every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install rkhunter
2. Wait until daily run and check your (root) email
3.
  
Actual results:
--------------------- Start Rootkit Hunter Update ---------------------
[ Rootkit Hunter version 1.3.6 ]

Checking rkhunter data files...
  Checking file mirrors.dat                                  [ No update ]
  Checking file programs_bad.dat                             [ No update ]
  Checking file backdoorports.dat                            [ No update ]
  Checking file suspscan.dat                                 [ No update ]
  Checking file i18n/cn                                      [ No update ]
  Checking file i18n/de                                      [ No update ]
  Checking file i18n/en                                      [ No update ]
  Checking file i18n/zh                                      [ No update ]
  Checking file i18n/zh.utf8                                 [ No update ]

---------------------- Start Rootkit Hunter Scan ----------------------
Warning: Hidden file found: /usr/bin/.ssh-keygen.hmac: ASCII text
Warning: Hidden file found: /usr/bin/.ssh-keyscan.hmac: ASCII text
Warning: Hidden file found: /usr/bin/.ssh-add.hmac: ASCII text
Warning: Hidden file found: /usr/bin/.ssh-agent.hmac: ASCII text

One or more warnings have been found while checking the system.
Please check the log file (/var/log/rkhunter/rkhunter.log)

----------------------- End Rootkit Hunter Scan -----------------------


Expected results:
No email generated since those hmac files appear to be valid


Additional info:
appears that these need to be added to the ALLOWHIDDENFILE list in rkhunter.conf

Comment 1 Kevin Fenzi 2010-01-05 18:10:29 UTC
Sigh. Yeah, will push out an update with these added. 

Looks like they added more hmac files in an update. ;(

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2010-01-05 18:47:22 UTC
rkhunter-1.3.6-3.fc12 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 12.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/rkhunter-1.3.6-3.fc12

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2010-01-05 18:52:09 UTC
rkhunter-1.3.6-3.fc11 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 11.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/rkhunter-1.3.6-3.fc11

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2010-01-07 00:55:36 UTC
rkhunter-1.3.6-3.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update rkhunter'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F12/FEDORA-2010-0220

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2010-01-07 01:00:06 UTC
rkhunter-1.3.6-3.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update rkhunter'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F11/FEDORA-2010-0246

Comment 6 Kevin Fenzi 2010-02-28 05:39:06 UTC
This was fixed a while back, closing now.


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