Re: FireWall-1 FTP Server Vulnerability

From: Nick FitzGerald (nick@virus-l.demon.co.uk)
Date: Thu Feb 17 2000 - 03:36:47 PST

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    <<much snipped>>
    > Even with the best firewall in the world, I'm pretty convinced that
    > you need an ftp server that implements the FTP protocol correctly
    > before you have a hope of handling PASV correctly.
    
    Which is a different way of making the point Greg Hoglund did in a
    recent-ish ntbugtraq post (Subject: Crappy code is crappy code ...)
    that a firewall has an icicle's chance in hell of adequately
    mimicking a system it is supposed to protect if it does so purely on
    the assumption that the code it is protecting works "correctly" by
    the firewall developer's interpretation of "correct".
    
    
    Regards,
    
    Nick FitzGerald
    



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