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RE: Borderware Ping Server
From: "Ofir Arkin" <ofir () sys-security com>
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 11:40:18 +0200
Gents, This is not only the question of ping of death. There is also a very important issue of how this ping server/proxy validates that the requests sent and received are truly genuine ICMP echo requests and replies. Especially data in the data portion of the ICMP echo request and reply, message length and other gizmos. Ofir Arkin [ofir () sys-security com] Founder The Sys-Security Group http://www.sys-security.com PGP CC2C BE53 12C6 C9F2 87B1 B8C6 0DFA CF2D D360 43FA -----Original Message----- From: firewall-wizards-admin () nfr com [mailto:firewall-wizards-admin () nfr com] On Behalf Of Marcus J. Ranum Sent: ג 09 אוקטובר 2001 17:24 To: Don Ng; firewall-wizards () nfr com Subject: Re: [fw-wiz] Borderware Ping Server
Seems to be quite unique, is it a proxy server for ICMP echo request?
I believe that what it did was set a bpf filter for icmp packets, which it then proxied to the outside world and re-injected on the internal network. Kind of an interesting concept; I wonder if it would have adequately protected against a ping of death attack... mjr. --- Marcus J. Ranum Chief Technology Officer, NFR Security, Inc. Work: http://www.nfr.com Personal: http://www.ranum.com _______________________________________________ firewall-wizards mailing list firewall-wizards () nfr com http://list.nfr.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards _______________________________________________ firewall-wizards mailing list firewall-wizards () nfr com http://list.nfr.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards
Current thread:
- Borderware Ping Server Don Ng (Oct 09)
- Re: Borderware Ping Server Marcus J. Ranum (Oct 09)
- RE: Borderware Ping Server Ofir Arkin (Oct 17)
- RE: Borderware Ping Server Matthew Kirkwood (Oct 18)
- RE: Borderware Ping Server Marcus J. Ranum (Oct 18)
- RE: Borderware Ping Server Ofir Arkin (Oct 18)
- RE: Borderware Ping Server Marcus J. Ranum (Oct 20)
- RE: Borderware Ping Server Ofir Arkin (Oct 23)
- RE: Borderware Ping Server Matthew Kirkwood (Oct 23)
- RE: Borderware Ping Server Ofir Arkin (Oct 23)
- RE: Borderware Ping Server Ofir Arkin (Oct 17)
- Re: Borderware Ping Server Marcus J. Ranum (Oct 09)
- Re: Borderware Ping Server Paul Zatychec (Oct 18)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: Borderware Ping Server Peter Cox (Oct 11)
- RE: Borderware Ping Server Don Ng (Oct 11)