On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, SoloCDM wrote:
>
> It's time to resurrect this discussion!
>
> Long time ago, when I was not up-to-date on security, I had a cracker
> enter a worm into my system without even entering the front door. I
> was fortunate to spot the trouble early, but a worm of that magnitude
> was not worth having around.
>
> Why the story? Ipchains has reject and from all appearances it allows
> the worm, as it so happened long ago, into the system. Deny doesn't
> seem to entertain any thought of accepting anything. In fact, it
> seems to baffle bad or good systems into not knowing what to do. I
> think that's far better, then allowing any hints.
>
> Care to comment?
>
Was this when there was a bug in the IP chains code? I think I remember
a security warning about this...
Mikkel
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for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
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