Add three new TrustedBSD-related ideas for GSoC (or otherwise):
- New audit parsing API - NT/Linux to BSM conversion tool - Application-specific audit trails All three would be reasonable student projects or someone with strong C language skills and at least some security backgroun.
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<idea id="auditparse" class="soc">
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<title>A New Audit Parsing API</title>
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<desc>
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<p><strong>Technical contact</strong>: <a
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href="mailto:rwatson@FreeBSD.org">Robert Watson</a>, <a
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href="mailto:trustedbsd-audit@TrustedBSD.org">TrustedBSD audit
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mailing list</a></p>
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<p>The current OpenBSM audit parsing API has a number of limitations,
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not least that it can't handle little endian BSM records that may
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come from Solaris x86 systems, in terms of ABI robustness in the
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presence of new record types, ability to process trails generated
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non-locally in terms of supporting uid/gid->name translation, and
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in terms of incrementally processing a byte stream from, for
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example, socket sources without using the C FILE API.</p>
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<p>This task would consider existing audit parsing APIs in the
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industry, including POSIX.1e, relevant Open Group specs, and in-use
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APIs on other systems such as Solaris, Linux, Windows NT, and
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others, in order to first identify an existing candidate API or
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design a new candidate API, then implement the API and adapt
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existing audit applications to use it. The task would also
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document the API using man pages, create an audit parsing tutorial
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document, create a test suites, and require interaction with the
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OpenBSM and FreeBSD communities to identify audit parsing
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requirements.</p>
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<p>If successful, the results of this work would be integrated into
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OpenBSM, the open source BSD-licensed audit framework shipped with
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FreeBSD and Mac OS X.</p>
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<p><strong>Requirements</strong>:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>Strong C programming skills.</li>
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<li>Past coursework or reading in the area of computer security.</li>
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</ul>
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</desc>
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</idea>
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<idea id="bsmconvert" class="soc">
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<title>NT/Linux to BSM Conversion Tool</title>
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<desc>
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<p><strong>Technical contact</strong>: <a
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href="mailto:rwatson@FreeBSD.org">Robert Watson</a>, <a
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href="mailto:trustedbsd-audit@TrustedBSD.org">TrustedBSD audit
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mailing list</a></p>
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<p>The BSM (Basic Security Framework) audit trail format is the de
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facto industry standard for portable operating system audit trails,
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being supported on Solaris, FreeBSD, and Mac OS X. However, many
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other audit trail formats exist that are less portable, including
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audit trail formats local to Windows NT and Linux.</p>
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<p>This task would create BSD-licensed conversion tools to import
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audit trails from other systems and convert them to BSM format so
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that they can be inspected and managed using the OpenBSM tool set.
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This would require the creation of BSD-licensed parsers for audit
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trail formats of interest, designing and documenting a semantic
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mapping to the BSM trail format, and writing conversion utilities
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using the new parsers, semantic mapping, and BSM generation
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routines in OpenBSM. A key part of this work would be to
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rigorously understand and document the mapping and its limitations
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(for example, perhaps some Windows NT concepts can't be represented
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in BSM in a natural way, such as larger SID than UID fields, which
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is important information for anyone using BSM trails from NT
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systems). A test suite is also required.</p>
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<p>If successful, the results of this work would be integrated into
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OpenBSM, the open source BSD-licensed audit framework shipped with
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FreeBSD and Mac OS X.</p>
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<p><strong>Requirements</strong>:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>Strong C programming skills.</li>
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<li>Past coursework or reading in the area of computer security.</li>
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</ul>
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</desc>
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</idea>
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<idea id="appaudit" class="soc">
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<title>Application-Specific Audit Trails</title>
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<desc>
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<p><strong>Technical contact</strong>: <a
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href="mailto:rwatson@FreeBSD.org">Robert Watson</a>, <a
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href="mailto:trustedbsd-audit@TrustedBSD.org">TrustedBSD audit
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mailing list</a></p>
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<p>Currently, FreeBSD's audit trail support is a system-level
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facility, intended to track system-level security events. However,
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as the affordability of computers has gone up, they are
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increasingly single-application systems, and applications are
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increasingly playing a role in the Trusted Code Base (TCB) of
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larger integrated computing systems. As such, it is desirable to
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support reliable and secure auditing of application events that do
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not correspond to the traditional TCB components, such as events
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from databases, web servers, or virtual machines. However, these
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events need to be handled separately, as they have quite different
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security and selection requirements.</p>
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<p>This task would extend the FreeBSD kernel's audit framework to
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allow multiple concurrent audit trails to be maintained, reflecting
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different "slices" of the system. The base slice would be the
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existing system audit trail, submitted to by the kernel itself, as
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well as using the audit(2) system call, and stored in /var/audit.
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New slices would be represented by named special devices in /dev,
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with ownership and permissions reflecting their desired application
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security properties; each slice would have its own audit worker and
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queue, with its own pipe reliability properties and target trail
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files. This would require extending OpenBSM's auditd and libbsm to
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support multiple trails as well. Finally, two or more sample
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applications would be modified to submit application-level
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auditing, such as the authentication routines in Apache and
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PostgreSQL. This design would have several interesting properties,
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not least that audit trails submitted by applications would be
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protected from application tampering after submission, as the
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kernel would mediate access using the TCB. Analysis of potential
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designs, security issues, documentation, and a test suite are
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required.</p>
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<p>If successful, the results of this work would be integrated into
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the FreeBSD kernel and OpenBSM.</p>
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<p><strong>Requirements</strong></p>
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<ul>
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<li>Strong C programming skills.</li>
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<li>Past coursework or reading in the area of computer security.</li>
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<li>Past coursework in the area of operating system kernels.</li>
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</ul>
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</desc>
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</idea>
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