Glibc and OpenSSL patching (KernelCare+)

Glibc and OpenSSL patching is now available for the following operating systems:

• CentOS/RHEL/CloudLinux OS 7
• CloudLinux OS 8
• AlmaLinux 8
• Oracle Linux 7
• Oracle Linux 8
• Debian 9/10
• Ubuntu 16.04/18.04/20.04
• Proxmox VE 6.
• Scientific Linux

Installation and upgrade

Userspace processes patching feature is available in the KernelCare package.

Usage

To apply the available patches to all userspace processes, run the following command:

$ kcarectl --lib-update

To gather information about what processes were patched, run the following command:

$ kcarectl --lib-info

To gather information about applyed patches:

$ kcarectl --lib-patch-info

To unpatch all involved processes, run the following command:

$ kcarectl --lib-unload

Blacklisting

If you need to avoid patching of some particular process it could be done by blacklist defining. Default one is located in /var/lib/libcare/blacklist and contains a package-provided list. You can overwrite those values by creating /var/cache/kcare/userspace/blacklist file with the higher priority.

Auto update

Userspace patching cron job is disabled by default. To enable it, run the following command:

libcare-cron init

Troubleshooting

Auditd logs

The libcare tools heavily use a ptrace syscall and, in case of auditd trace it's calls, there will be a lot of records in a log. There is a rule that provided by kernelcare package and located here /etc/audit/rules.d/kernelcare.rules. It will exclue kernelcare processes from audit.

Note: no such rule is provided for el6 due to old autditd restrictions. There is a command that will add such rule in runtime

auditctl -l | grep kcare | cut -d' ' -f2- | xargs -t -L1 -r auditctl -d && pgrep libcare-server | xargs -t -n1 -i auditctl -A exit,never -F arch=b64 -S ptrace -F pid="{}" -k kcarever | xargs -t -n1 -i auditctl -A exit,never -F arch=b64 -S ptrace -F pid="{}" -k kcare

It removes all currently enabled kernelcare rules and adds a new one by libcare's process ID.