* Fri Jan 26 2018 astieger@suse.com
- update to 2.6.1:
* New group 'usb' for tests related to USB devices
* Updated and enhanced tests
* Many bug fixes
* output and UI fixes
* Thu Jun 08 2017 astieger@suse.com
- Lynis 2.5.1:
* Improved detection of SSL certificate files
* Minor changes to improve logging and results
* Firewall tests: Determine if CSF is in testing mode
- includes changes from Lynis 2.5.0:
* CVE-2017-8108: symlink attack may have allowed arbitrary file
overwrite or privilege escalation (bsc#1043463)
* Deleted unused tests from database file
* Additional sysctls are tested
* Extended test with Symantec components
* Snort detection
* Snort configuration file
* Tue Apr 04 2017 tuukka.pasanen@ilmi.fi
- Lynis 2.4.8 (Changelog from 2.4.1)
* More PHP paths added
* Minor changes to text
* Show atomic test in report
* Added FileInstalledByPackage function (dpkg and rpm supported)
* Mark Arch Linux version as rolling release (instead of unknown)
* Support for Manjaro Linux
* Escape files when testing if they are readable
* Code cleanups
* Allow host alias to be specified in profile
* Code readability enhancements
* Solaris support has been improved
* Fix for upload function to be used from profile
* Reduce screen output for mail section, unless --verbose is used
* Code cleanups and removed 'update release' command
* Colored output can now be tuned with profile (colors=yes/no)
* Allow data upload to be set as a profile option
* Properly detect SSH daemon version
* Generic code improvements
* Improved the update check and display
* Finish, Portuguese, and Turkish translation
* Extended support and tests for DragonFlyBSD
* Option to configure hostid and hostid2 in profile
* Support for Trend Micro and Cylance (macOS)
* Remove comments at end of nginx configuration
* Used machine ID to create host ID when no SSH keys are available
* Added detection of iptables-save to binaries
Tests:
BANN-7126 - Added more words to test for
CUPS-2308 - Improve logging for CUPS configuration test, removed exception handler
HTTP-6641 - Support detection for Apache module mod_reqtimeout
PKGS-7388 - Minor change to detect security repositories
CRYP-7902 - Test more certificates names, but only if they are not part of a package
FILE-7524 - Reduce standard screen output for file permissions check
MALW-3280 - Added Avira detection as a malware scanner
NAME-4018 - Only perform name services test when resolv.conf file exists
PKGS-7387 - Check all repositories if they use GPG signing
SCHD-7704 - Permission checks
TIME-3104 - Check permissions before open files
AUTH-9328 - Add missing 0027 and 0077 umasks
BOOT-5104 - Add initsplash and minor code enhancements
DBS-1882 - Include Redis configuration file
FIRE-4502 - Improved detection for iptables modules when using OpenVZ
PKGS-7381 - Enhanced package audit for FreeBSD
AUTH-9308 - Improved test for sulogin string (Debian systems)
FILE-6372 - Properly deal with comment on lines in /etc/fstab
MAIL-8817 - New test to check Postfix configuration for errors
SSH-7408 - Corrected SSH check
AUTH-9308 - Improved test for sulogin string
MAIL-8818 - Test if Linux version is known before comparing in Postfix banner
TIME-3116 - Skip stratum 16 items for time pools
TIME-3148 - New test to detect TZ variable
AUTH-9208 - Removed double logging
AUTH-9222 - Improve logging for double groups
AUTH-9226 - Improve logging for double groups
BOOT-5177 - Sort systemctl unit files to make them unique
DBS-1818 - New test to detect MongoDB
DBS-1820 - New test for MongoDB authentication
FIRE-4512 - Lowered minimum number of iptables firewall rules
FIRE-4586 - Fix applied when searching for "-j LOG"
HRDN-7222 - Changed reporting key of world executable compilers
SSH-7408 - Added filtering for PermitRootLogin (prohibit-password, OpenSSH 7.0)
FIRE-4586 - Check logging for firewall components
KRNL-5788 - Remove exception and style improvements
KRNL-5830 - Improved logging
* Fri Nov 04 2016 matthias.gerstner@suse.com
- lynis 2.4.0
* Mainly improved support for macOS users
* Support for CoreOS
* Support for clamconf utility
* Support for chinese translation
* More sysctl values in the default profile
* New commands: "upload-only", "show hostids", "show environment", "show os"
* Wed Sep 28 2016 astieger@suse.com
- lynis 2.3.4 with various improvements, including:
* Several tests have extended log details
* Detection of nftables improved
* Replaced cut, sed, tr and others commands with binary variable
(for forensics and future intrusion checking capabilities)
* OS detection improved
* Thu Sep 15 2016 astieger@suse.com
- lynis 2.3.3 with many improvements and updates
* Thu May 12 2016 astieger@suse.com
- lynis 2.2.0:
* new features and tests, small enhancements
* optimisation, better detection
* dealing with OS quirks and unexcepted results
* adjustments for supporting more compliance in-depth
* Detection for CFEngine has been improved
* now tries to determine if failed logins are properly logged
* New plugin is introduced to analyze PAM settings
* Initial support to test UEFI settings, including Secure Boot option.
* Support added for Unbound DNS caching tool, configuration check
* Record if a name caching utility is being used like nscd or Unbound.
* Tests chains of iptables and their default policy (ACCEPT or DROP)
* Support upcoming nftables technology (status check)
* Test added to include osqueryd as a supported tool.
* Detection of firewire is enhanced (both ohci and core detected).
* Extended the test syslog-ng logging to remote systems.
* ESET and LMD (Linux Malware Detect) have been added.
* Discovered malware scanners are also logged to the report.
* Eexpanded test for multiple common mount points and define best
practice mount flags.
* Best practices for IPv6 configuration on Linux are now collected.
* Collect network interface names from most operating systems.
* Password change test has been extended to both capture minimum and password age.
* Add Proxu support
* SystemV init is now detected.
* Now information will be logged when vulnerable software packages were found.
* Support for DNF (Dandified YUM) for Fedora systems has been added.
* Multiple configuration tests of SSH merged.
* Extend detection of virtual machines (VMware tools)
* Machine state detection with Puppet, Facter, dmidecode, and lscpu
* When using pentest mode, it will continue without any delays (=quick mode).
* Improvements for automatic execution of Lynis
* Upload improvements
* Wed Jul 29 2015 astieger@suse.com
- lynis 2.1.1:
* performance improvements
* additional support for Linux distributions and external utilities
* Apache module directory /usr/lib64/apache has been added, which
is used on openSUSE.
* various other improvements and bug fixes
- update patches for contect changes:
lynis_1.3.1_include_consts.diff, lynis_1.3.5_lynis.diff
* Tue May 12 2015 astieger@suse.com
- lynis 2.1.0:
* Screen output has been improved to provide additional information.
* Core dump check on Linux is extended to check for actual values as well.
* Software:
+ McAfee detection has been extended by detecting a running cma binary.
+ Security patch checking with zypper extended.
* Session timeout:
+ Tests to determine shell time out setting have been extended
+ determine also if variable is exported as a readonly variable.
+ Related compliance section PCI DSS 8.1.8 has been extended.
- includes changes from Lynis 2.0.0:
* New feature: helpers
* docker build file audit helper
* Improved OS support
* support systemd, docker, nftables
* New parameters:
+ --dump-options (see all options)
+ --report-file (define a different location for the report file)
- use tarball supplied default.prf
- clean or silence rpmlint warnings
* Tue Feb 17 2015 astieger@suse.com
- lynis 1.6.4:
* New:
+ Boot loader detection for AIX
+ Detection of getcap and lsvg binary
+ Added filesystem_ext to report
+ Detect rootsh
* Changes:
+ Hide errors when RPM database is faulty and show suggestion instead
+ Allow OpenBSD to gather information on listening network ports
+ Don't trigger warning for Shellshock when doing segfault test
+ Do not run Apache test on OpenBSD and strip control chars
+ Extended AIDE test with configuration validation test
+ Improved Shellshock test regarding non-Linux support
+ Added support for gathering volume groups on AIX
+ Properly parse PAM lines and add them to report
+ Support for boot loader detection on OpenBSD
+ Added uptime detection for OpenBSD systems
+ Support for volume groups on AIX
+ Redirect errors when searching for readlink binary
- includes changes from 1.6.3:
* New:
+ Added tests for Shellshock bash vulnerability
+ Added test to determine if Snoopy is used
+ New test for qdaemon configuration file
+ Test for GRUB boot loader password
+ New test for qdaemon printer jobs
+ Added ClamXav test for Mac OS X
+ Gentoo vulnerable packages test
+ New test for qdaemon status
+ Gentoo package listing
+ Running Lynis without root permissions will start non-privileged scan
+ Systemd service and timer example file added
+ Added grub2-install to binaries
* Changes:
+ Adjustments so insecure SSL protocols are detected in nginx config
+ Directories will be skipped when searching for nginx log files
+ Only gather unique name servers from /etc/resolv.conf
+ Properly detect mod_evasive on Gentoo and others
+ Improved swap partition detection in /etc/fstab
+ Improvements to kernel detection (e.g. Gentoo)
+ Test for built-in security options in YUM
+ Improved boot loader detection for GRUB2
+ Split GRUB test into two tests
+ Added Mac OS uptime check
+ Improved GetHostID function for systems having only ip binary
+ Improved testing for symlinked binary directories
+ Minor adjustments to log output
+ Renamed dev directory to extras
- verify source signature
- adjust permissions of items in /usr/share/lynis/include/consts
to match those requested by main executable
- run spec_cleaner
* Sun Nov 16 2014 Led <ledest@gmail.com>
- fix bashisms in scripts
* Wed Sep 24 2014 citypw@gmail.com
- Upgrade to version 1.6.2
- Remove files:
* lynis_1.3.7_include-test-filesystem.diff( already fixed)
* lynis-1.3.9.tar.gz
* Thu Jan 09 2014 saigkill@opensuse.org
- updated to version 1.3.9
- removed patch
* lynis_1.3.6_include-test-kernel.diff (fixed upstream)
* Wed Dec 11 2013 saigkill@opensuse.org
- updated to version 1.3.7
- Changelog:
* FileExists() and SearchItem() functions were added. The yum-security
check and iptables binary check were improved, and the report was
extended to show which tests have been executed or skipped
- updated patch
* lynis_1.3.7_include-test-filesystem.diff
* Tue Dec 10 2013 saigkill@opensuse.org
- updated to version 1.3.6
- Removed patches (obsolete):
* lynis_1.3.5_include_binaries.diff
- Updated patches
* lynis_1.3.6_include_osdetection.diff
* lynis_1.3.6_include-test-kernel.diff
* Sun Nov 24 2013 saigkill@opensuse.org
- updated to version 1.3.5
- Updated patches:
o lynis_1.3.1_lynis.diff
o lynis_1.3.1_include_binaries.diff
o lynis_1.3.1_include-osdetection.diff
o lynis_1.3.1_include-test-kernel.diff
- Removed patches (obsolete)
o lynis_1.3.1_include-test-databases.diff
o lynis_1.3.1_include-test-storage.diff
o lynis_1.3.1_include-test-homedirs.diff
* Fri Jun 21 2013 thomas@suse.com
- fixed typo in prepare_for_suse.sh
* Fri Jan 25 2013 thomas@suse.com
- fixed log message for dbus test
- fixed bash variable incrementation that sneaked in the code
* Mon Jan 14 2013 thomas@suse.com
- fixed tests_network_allowed_ports to increment index vars
and not loop forever
* Thu Jan 10 2013 thomas@suse.com
- fixed test_homedirs