Re: Possible security hole

[lincoln () hotlink com br (Cristiano Lincoln Mattos)]

Quoting Christoforos Karatzinis <chka () SOLUTIONS IE>:

Hi,
     The FW1 documentation clearly states that there is
a small delay after the interface initialize's and the
FW starts acting on it.  It is possible to do something
"bad" to it in this period...

Regards,
Cristiano Lincoln Mattos
Recife / Brazil

> The first 25 packets were lost before the interface's
initialization. The
> packets with sequence number greater than 34 are droped
from the firewall.
> What about the packets with sequence number 25-34? Is it
possible that
> someone can use this time (after the interface's
initialization and before
> the firewall's initialization) to do something bad?
>
> Regards,
> Christofer