Interesting article about punching holes in firewalls...

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I ran across an interesting article (http://www.heise-security.co.uk/articles/print/82481) (1) that I think any and all firewall administrators should take a few moments to read.

I personally have known that using "-m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED" was not the most secure thing to use for returning traffic. Namely this will allow you to make a valid connection to a web server, say to retrieve a picture. Then said web server could send malicious traffic back to your computer and pass through your firewall. This is because the traffic coming from the web server to your computer is now deemed as RELATED. Previously I have written this off as not needing to worry about this (much) YET. Yet being the operative word. I have long known that I would, especially on more secure installs (read not SOHO) need to filter inbound traffic based on source / destination port. I just have not thought that it was important enough to do presently for my clientele. Unfortunately, the day where we do as much filtering on related traffic as we do on non related traffic may be closer at hand than we all would like to admit. :(



Grant. . . .


(1) Is a /. article "How Skype Punches Holes in Firewalls" (http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/15/191205)
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