How to check if DCCP protocol is enabled in SLES SPx?

SUSE Product Topics SLES Networking
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For CVE-2017-6074, I want to check if DCCP protocol is enabled in my system.
As per the information available at https://www.suse.com/support/kb/doc/?id=7018645, DCCP protocol does not get installed in SLES 11 by default.
But how can I confirm this?

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Hi
Do you have the ‘extra’ module repository active?

Check for a blacklist entry in /etc/modprobe.d/

fgrep -r "dccp" /etc/modprobe.d/*

Check with netstat for the dccp ports from the output of;

cat /etc/services |grep dccp

Search with zypper for dccp, if it’s installed, then remove and add a
lock with zypper.

zypper se dccp
zypper rm <package_name>
zypper al <package_name>

Finally add a blacklist entry in /etc/modprobe.d/99-local.conf and run
mkinitrd.

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[QUOTE=malcolmlewis;36743]Hi
Do you have the ‘extra’ module repository active?

NO

Check for a blacklist entry in /etc/modprobe.d/

fgrep -r "dccp" /etc/modprobe.d/*

NO Output

Check with netstat for the dccp ports from the output of;

cat /etc/services |grep dccp

No ports are open.

Search with zypper for dccp, if it’s installed, then remove and add a
lock with zypper.

zypper se dccp
zypper rm <package_name>
zypper al <package_name>

No output for “zypper se dccp”

Finally add a blacklist entry in /etc/modprobe.d/99-local.conf and run
mkinitrd.

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Thanks for your help.

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Hi Malcom,

i still have some systems with SLES 10 SP4. It seems that DCCP is implemented as a kernel module:

[CODE]pc53200:/var/lib/mysql/backup # zgrep -i dccp /proc/config.gz
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_DCCP=m

DCCP Configuration (EXPERIMENTAL)

CONFIG_IP_DCCP=m
CONFIG_INET_DCCP_DIAG=m

DCCP CCIDs Configuration (EXPERIMENTAL)

CONFIG_IP_DCCP_CCID3=m
CONFIG_IP_DCCP_TFRC_LIB=m

DCCP Kernel Hacking

CONFIG_IP_DCCP_DEBUG is not set

CONFIG_IP_DCCP_UNLOAD_HACK is not set

pc53200:/var/lib/mysql/backup # lsmod|grep -i dccp
pc53200:/var/lib/mysql/backup #[/CODE]

Does that mean that i’m not vulnerable ?

If i understand https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datagram_Congestion_Control_Protocol correctly, it does not use neither tcp nor udp. So it can’t be visible with netstat ?

Executing the other steps you mentioned does not give any hint to dccp.

Bernd

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Hi
So if you try modprobe dccp does it appear in the output of lsmod? I’m
guessing yes (since it’s configured as a loadable module), so unless an
admin loads it, it won’t get used…

So, you could blacklist it, or setup a cron job to check and delete the
module(s) if there;

ls /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/net/dccp

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