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From: Philip Craig <philipc@snapgear.com>
To: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] drop ftp bounce attacks
Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 12:55:59 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44751CBF.8040906@snapgear.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44748A4D.1070905@trash.net>

On 05/25/2006 02:31 AM, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> The best solution would be to mark the packet INVALID and let the
> user decide using the state match.

Marking the packet INVALID is definitely better than always dropping
it.

The reason I said fixing the ftp server is the best solution is
that I'm not sure whether the ftp conntrack module can match on
all possible port commands, taking into account fragmentation,
reordering, and retransmits.

This is different from attacks against the firewall, in which the
attack works only if the firewall recognizes the port command and
creates an expectation.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-05-25  2:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-24  4:04 [PATCH 0/4] netfilter patches for consideration philipc
2006-05-24  4:04 ` [PATCH 1/4] TCPMSS: dont drop packets philipc
2006-05-24 16:16   ` Patrick McHardy
2006-05-24 23:42     ` Philip Craig
2006-05-26 14:40       ` Patrick McHardy
2006-05-24  4:04 ` [PATCH 2/4] TCPMSS: clamp to input interface MTU too philipc
2006-05-24 16:18   ` Patrick McHardy
2006-05-24  4:04 ` [PATCH 3/4] log dropped ICMP redirects philipc
2006-05-24 16:26   ` Patrick McHardy
2006-05-25  2:34     ` Philip Craig
2006-05-26 14:49       ` Patrick McHardy
2006-05-24  4:04 ` [PATCH 4/4] drop ftp bounce attacks philipc
2006-05-24 16:31   ` Patrick McHardy
2006-05-25  2:55     ` Philip Craig [this message]
2006-05-26 14:51       ` Patrick McHardy

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