Re: Possible security hole

From: Cristiano Lincoln Mattos (lincolnat_private)
Date: Mon Mar 29 1999 - 03:09:03 PST

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Quoting Christoforos Karatzinis <chkaat_private>:

Hi,
     The FW1 documentation clearly states that there is
a small delay after the interface initialize's and the
FW starts acting on it.  It is possible to do something
"bad" to it in this period...

Regards,
Cristiano Lincoln Mattos
Recife / Brazil

> The first 25 packets were lost before the interface's
initialization. The
> packets with sequence number greater than 34 are droped
from the firewall.
> What about the packets with sequence number 25-34? Is it
possible that
> someone can use this time (after the interface's
initialization and before
> the firewall's initialization) to do something bad?
>
> Regards,
> Christofer

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