Re: Political Analysis of Security Products

["Kurt Seifried" <bugtraq () seifried net>]

Open port, to accept packets? No. It's a firewall. Hint: it already sees all
the network traffic. You can easily add a backdoor to a product like that to
(for exmaple) take ICMP packets of a special type not often used (say type
40) and if they meet a special checksum/md5hash with secret you decrupt the
contents and carry out those instructions. There are some examples of this,
icmp backdoors, and the like for various UNIX systems. The only way to find
stuff like this is a source code audit.


Kurt Seifried, kurt () seifried org
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