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Raptor Firewall
From: "Stuart" <stuart.hackinfo () btinternet com>
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 00:06:23 -0000
We've run a pentest against a customer recently and found that the very act of port scanning their Raptor firewall (running on NT) crippled its ability to accept incoming connections for their web site. The firewall is a new high spec PIII and the least line is a decent size. The nmap scans were standard timing (not T5 or anything daft) - once the scans were stopped, things burst back in to life within about 10minutes. This sounds like a lack of available connections type problem (similar to SYN flooding) to me. The firewall was running at about 10% CPU usage at the time and was not swapping to disk at all, also strangely, internal access outbound to the net for web browsing seemed unaffected? Its the latest version of Raptor and we're told its fully patched up to date. Does this ring any bells with anyone? Seems very odd to me... a portscan should not cause a DOS by itself... thanks Stuart IT Security Consultant, UK ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- This list is provided by the SecurityFocus Security Intelligence Alert (SIA) Service. For more information on SecurityFocus' SIA service which automatically alerts you to the latest security vulnerabilities please see: https://alerts.securityfocus.com/
Current thread:
- Writing to Windows Security Log Tina Bird (Dec 05)
- Stunnel Problems Stuart (Dec 06)
- Re: Stunnel Problems Joerg Over (Dec 10)
- RE: Stunnel Problems Bugtraq (Dec 10)
- Raptor Firewall Stuart (Dec 06)
- Re: Raptor Firewall H D Moore (Dec 10)
- Re: Raptor Firewall Alex Butcher (pentest) (Dec 10)
- Re: Raptor Firewall Mike Shaw (Dec 10)
- Re: Raptor Firewall Erik Parker (Dec 10)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Writing to Windows Security Log Tina Bird (Dec 06)
- Re: Writing to Windows Security Log Adrien de Beaupre (Dec 10)
- RE: Writing to Windows Security Log Brass, Phil (ISS Atlanta) (Dec 10)
- Stunnel Problems Stuart (Dec 06)