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From: Ray Leach <raymondl@knowledgefactory.co.za>
To: Netfilter Mailing List <netfilter@lists.netfilter.org>
Subject: Re: Can netfilter do this?
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 14:33:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1080218017.2388.125.camel@raylinux.internal> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4062C994.5000506@rochester.rr.com>

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On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 13:59, Joe Mott wrote:
> I have been searching the archived lists without any success to have the 
> following question answered:
> 
> Is netfilter capable of knowing when someone is crafting SMTP (or FTP or 
> HTTP or ...) packets that violate RFC rules to exploit a vulnerability 
> in some server?

As the other replies say, the short answer is no.

You can do some filtering using the netfilter POM patches, like string
matching, TOS, TCP flags.

Regards

Ray
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-03-25 12:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-25 11:59 Can netfilter do this? Joe Mott
2004-03-25 12:14 ` Gavin Hamill
2004-03-25 12:20 ` David Cannings
2004-03-25 12:33 ` Ray Leach [this message]
2004-03-25 21:56 ` Frederic de Villamil
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2004-03-25 17:23 Daniel Chemko
2004-03-25 20:53 Small, Jim

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