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12 January, 2014

The 2.6.0 release of fwknop is available for download. This release incorporates a number of feature enhancements such as an AppArmor policy for fwknopd, HMAC authenticated encryption support for the Android client, new NAT criteria that are independently configurable for each access.conf stanza, and more rigorous valgrind verification powered by the CPAN Test::Valgrind module. A few bugs were fixed as well, and similarly to the 2.5 and 2.5.1 releases, the fwknop project has a Coverity defect count of zero. As proof of this, you can see the Coverity high-level defect stats for fwknop here (you'll need to sign up for an account): I would encourage any open source project that is using Coverity to publish their scan results. At last count, it appears that over 1,100 projects are using Coverity, but OpenSSH is still not one of them.

Development on fwknop-2.6.1 will begin shortly, and here is the complete ChangeLog for fwknop-2.6.0:

• (Radostan Riedel) Added an AppArmor policy for fwknopd that is known to work on Debian and Ubuntu systems. The policy file is available at extras/apparmor/usr.sbin/fwknopd.
• [libfko] Nikolay Kolev reported a build issue with Mac OS X Mavericks where local fwknop copies of strlcat() and strlcpy() were conflicting with those that already ship with OS X 10.9. Closes #108 on github.
• [libfko] (Franck Joncourt) Consolidated FKO context dumping function into lib/fko_util.c. In addition to adding a shared utility function for printing an FKO context, this change also makes the FKO context output slightly easier to parse by printing each FKO attribute on a single line (this change affected the printing of the final SPA packet data). The test suite has been updated to account for this change as well.
• [libfko] Bug fix to not attempt SPA packet decryption with GnuPG without an fko object with encryption_mode set to FKO_ENC_MODE_ASYMMETRIC. This bug was caught with valgrind validation against the perl FKO extension together with the set of SPA fuzzing packets in test/fuzzing/fuzzing_spa_packets. Note that this bug cannot be triggered via fwknopd because additional checks are made within fwknopd itself to force FKO_ENC_MODE_ASYMMETRIC whenever an access.conf stanza contains GPG key information. This fix strengthens libfko itself to independently require that the usage of fko objects without GPG key information does not result in attempted GPG decryption operations. Hence this fix applies mostly to third party usage of libfko - i.e. stock installations of fwknopd are not affected. As always, it is recommended to use HMAC authenticated encryption whenever possible even for GPG modes since this also provides a work around even for libfko prior to this fix.
• [Android] (Gerry Reno) Updated the Android client to be compatible with Android-4.4.
• [Android] Added HMAC support (currently optional).
• [server] Updated pcap_dispatch() default packet count from zero to 100. This change was made to ensure backwards compatibility with older versions of libpcap per the pcap_dispatch() man page, and also because some of a report from Les Aker of an unexpected crash on Arch Linux with libpcap-1.5.1 that is fixed by this change (closes #110).
• [server] Bug fix for SPA NAT modes on iptables firewalls to ensure that custom fwknop chains are re-created if they get deleted out from under the running fwknopd instance.
• [server] Added FORCE_SNAT to the access.conf file so that per-access stanza SNAT criteria can be specified for SPA access.
• [test suite] added --gdb-test to allow a previously executed fwknop or fwknopd command to be sent through gdb with the same command line args as the test suite used. This is for convenience to rapidly allow gdb to be launched when investigating fwknop/fwknopd problems.
• [client] (Franck Joncourt) Added --stanza-list argument to show the stanza names from ~/.fwknoprc.
• [libfko] (Hank Leininger) Contributed a patch to greatly extend libfko error code descriptions at various places in order to give much better information on what certain error conditions mean. Closes #98.
• [test suite] Added the ability to run perl FKO module built-in tests in the t/ directory underneath the CPAN Test::Valgrind module. This allows valgrind memory checks to be applied to libfko functions via the perl FKO module (and hence rapid prototyping can be combined with memory leak detection). A check is made to see whether the Test::Valgrind module has been installed, and --enable-valgrind is also required (or --enable-all) on the test-fwknop.pl command line.