Scary Hole in the Firewall?

Scary Hole in the Firewall?

[David Cary Hart]

Platform = Fedora 2
IPTables firewall. Snort running inside the firewall.

Here's the log entry. This is the default log entry prior to DROP. In
other words, what gets logged, gets dropped.

Jul 19 14:32:39 mail kernel: DEFAULT - Firewall: IN=eth0 OUT=
MAC=00:4f:4e:12:f9:93:00:09:5b:c9:37:54:08:00 SRC=203.202.150.156
DST=192.168.0.31 LEN=404 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=111 ID=4719 PROTO=UDP
SPT=1042 DPT=1434 LEN=384 

Here's the Snort log:

[**] MS-SQL Worm propagation attempt [**]
07/19-14:32:39.314347 203.202.150.156:1042 -> 192.168.0.31:1434
UDP TTL:111 TOS:0x0 ID:4719 IpLen:20 DgmLen:404
Len: 376
=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+

[**] MS-SQL version overflow attempt [**]
07/19-14:32:39.314347 203.202.150.156:1042 -> 192.168.0.31:1434
UDP TTL:111 TOS:0x0 ID:4719 IpLen:20 DgmLen:404
Len: 376

Now what?

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Re: Scary Hole in the Firewall?

[Aleksandar Milivojevic]

David Cary Hart wrote:
> Platform = Fedora 2
> IPTables firewall. Snort running inside the firewall.

Question.  Iniside firewall as in "on separate machine inside firewall", 
or as in "on the same machine as firewall"?

In former case, it might as well be that the packet you are seeing had 
spoofed IP address, and that it originated inside your network.  Is eth0 
on your LAN or outside.  Another case could be that you have ommision in 
firewall rules (so that "what is logged is not always dropped").

In later case, what you are seeing is what you were supposed to see (if 
I'm correct on how snort works, by sniffig network traffic directly from 
the network interface).

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Re: Scary Hole in the Firewall?

[Antony Stone]

On Monday 19 July 2004 8:29 pm, David Cary Hart wrote:

> Platform = Fedora 2
> IPTables firewall. Snort running inside the firewall.
>
> Here's the log entry. This is the default log entry prior to DROP. In
> other words, what gets logged, gets dropped.
>
> Jul 19 14:32:39 mail kernel: DEFAULT - Firewall: IN=eth0 OUT=
> MAC=00:4f:4e:12:f9:93:00:09:5b:c9:37:54:08:00 SRC=203.202.150.156
> DST=192.168.0.31 LEN=404 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=111 ID=4719 PROTO=UDP
> SPT=1042 DPT=1434 LEN=384
>
> Here's the Snort log:
>
> [**] MS-SQL Worm propagation attempt [**]
> 07/19-14:32:39.314347 203.202.150.156:1042 -> 192.168.0.31:1434
> UDP TTL:111 TOS:0x0 ID:4719 IpLen:20 DgmLen:404
> Len: 376
> =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+
>
> [**] MS-SQL version overflow attempt [**]
> 07/19-14:32:39.314347 203.202.150.156:1042 -> 192.168.0.31:1434
> UDP TTL:111 TOS:0x0 ID:4719 IpLen:20 DgmLen:404
> Len: 376
>
> Now what?

Well, without seeing your firewall ruleset, we can't offer much advice about 
why this packet got caught by snort.

Also, where is eth0 on your firewall?   Inside or outside?   I notice that the 
log entry says it came in on eth0 but didn't go out, therefore it's not being 
routed....

Regards,

Antony.

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Re: Scary Hole in the Firewall?

[Aleksandar Milivojevic]

David Cary Hart wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 15:42, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
>>Question.  Iniside firewall as in "on separate machine inside firewall", 
>>or as in "on the same machine as firewall"?
> 
> -snip-
> 
>>In later case, what you are seeing is what you were supposed to see (if 
>>I'm correct on how snort works, by sniffig network traffic directly from 
>>the network interface).
> 
> Same machine. I think that Snort only sees what gets through the
> firewall.

Actually, if Snort is sniffing traffic directly on the network interface 
(like tcpdump or ethereal), than it will see the packets as they arrive 
on the wire (before Netfilter can filter them out).

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