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Re: Sony: No firewall and no patches
From: Pavel Kankovsky <peak () argo troja mff cuni cz>
Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 15:23:12 +0200 (CEST)
On Wed, 11 May 2011, Dobbins, Roland wrote:
So the outbound stateful checking of server response traffic is moot, and simply constitutes a stateful DDoS chokepoint which makes it trivial for an attacker to take down the server in question by filling up the state-tables of said firewall with well-formed, programatically-generated traffic.
<irony> Yup. We all know servers handle traffic without any of those pesky state-tables that can be filled up with well-formed, programatically-generated traffic. </irony> -- Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak / Jeremiah 9:21 \ "For death is come up into our MS Windows(tm)..." \ 21st century edition / _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
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- Re: Sony: No firewall and no patches phocean (May 11)
- Re: Sony: No firewall and no patches Dobbins, Roland (May 11)
- Re: Sony: No firewall and no patches phocean (May 11)
- Re: Sony: No firewall and no patches Dobbins, Roland (May 11)
- Re: Sony: No firewall and no patches phocean (May 11)
- Re: Sony: No firewall and no patches Craig Miskell (May 11)
- Re: Sony: No firewall and no patches Thor (Hammer of God) (May 12)
- Re: Sony: No firewall and no patches Cal Leeming (May 11)
- Re: Sony: No firewall and no patches Thor (Hammer of God) (May 12)
- Re: Sony: No firewall and no patches Peter Osterberg (May 11)
- Re: Sony: No firewall and no patches Pavel Kankovsky (May 15)
- Re: Sony: No firewall and no patches Bruno Cesar Moreira de Souza (May 12)
- Re: Sony: No firewall and no patches phocean (May 11)
- Re: Sony: No firewall and no patches Dobbins, Roland (May 11)
- Re: Sony: No firewall and no patches phocean (May 11)
- Re: Sony: No firewall and no patches Dobbins, Roland (May 11)
- Re: Sony: No firewall and no patches phocean (May 11)
- Re: Sony: No firewall and no patches Dobbins, Roland (May 11)
- Re: Sony: No firewall and no patches phocean (May 11)
- Re: Sony: No firewall and no patches Dobbins, Roland (May 11)