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From: George Georgalis <georgw@galis.org>
To: Matthew Hellman <mhellman@raccoon.com>
Cc: George Georgalis <georgw@galis.org>, netfilter@lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: ssh connecting to wrong machine....
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2002 16:57:37 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020603165737.A1199@trot.haven.dom> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <001901c20af8$0b8bbe70$020aa8c0@matttm9svd8lrh>; from mhellman@raccoon.com on Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 07:13:17AM -0500

On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 07:13:17AM -0500, Matthew Hellman wrote:
>
>Looks good.  The only other thing I'd do is change your default OUTPUT
>policy to DROP and add this:
>iptables -A OUTPUT -m state --state NEW,ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
>
>There was a recent bug in the iptables code that had some security
>implications (information disclosure), but I don't recall the details at the
>moment. The suggestion was to drop INVALID output, which this does.

I think I heard about that, disclosing LAN IPs? I didn't really pay
attention at the time, thanks, it's fixed now.

// George


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  reply	other threads:[~2002-06-03 20:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-06-02 23:21 ssh connecting to wrong machine George Georgalis
2002-06-03  2:58 ` Matthew Hellman
2002-06-03  5:05   ` George Georgalis
2002-06-03 12:13     ` Matthew Hellman
2002-06-03 20:57       ` George Georgalis [this message]
2002-06-03  3:04 ` George Georgalis

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