RE: CVE-2014-0160 mitigation using iptables

[David Hubbard <dhubbard () dino hostasaurus com>]

He was also proven wrong on the Full Disclosure list but he seems to be
pushing this everywhere he can find an audience for some reason. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Nick Hilliard [mailto:nick () foobar org] 
Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2014 6:13 AM
To: Fabien Bourdaire; nanog () nanog org
Subject: Re: CVE-2014-0160 mitigation using iptables

On 09/04/2014 11:07, Fabien Bourdaire wrote:
> Following up on the CVE-2014-0160 vulnerability, heartbleed. We've 
> created some iptables rules to block all heartbeat queries using the 
> very powerful u32 module.

as someone pointed out on the UKNOF mailing list yesterday, you make a
number of assumptions in this ruleset which are not necessarily valid.

Please do not claim that this ruleset blocks all heartbeat queries
because it does not.

Nick