Re: Default configuration in WatchGuard Firewall

From: Matt Bruce (Matt.Bruceat_private)
Date: Tue Sep 14 1999 - 21:21:01 PDT

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    Hi all,
    
    I concur with the Watchguard Rapid Response Team's findings, based
    upon my experience with Firebox-II installations.
    
    Each Firebox-II with SMS 3.3 (with and without SP1) that I have done
    has had ping Disabled on Inbound (denied/logged) and Enabled on
    Outbound (any-to-any) by default. While there may be a (somewhat
    subjective or contentious) issue about allowing everyone outbound
    pinging by default, it certainly didn't allow any ping traffic from
    the External to the Trusted networks unless I explictly allowed it.
    
    I can't speak for FB-10/-100 boxes or versions of SMS prior to 3.3,
    however.
    
    HTH and regards,
    
    - --
    Matt Bruce  <matt.bruceat_private>
    Internet & Security Engineer
    AlphaWest - http://www.alphawest.com.au/
    
    
    >-----Original Message-----
    >From: Steve Fallin [mailto:steve.fallinat_private]
    >Sent: Tuesday, 14 September 1999 4:37 am
    >
    >The poster, Sr. Alfonso Lazaro stated that, by default, the
    >WatchGuard Firebox allowed ping traffic from any interface to
    >any interface...
    >In the absence of any further information from Sr. Lazaro,
    >we believe that his report of a vulnerability in Firebox
    >default configuration files is in error.
    
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