RE: Tunnel ports allowed on NetApp NetCaches

From: Kevin O'Brien (kevinoat_private)
Date: Thu Jul 05 2001 - 11:54:09 PDT

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    Also, I should note that we had this setup correctly (!all) in version 4 of
    the OS.  NetApp seemed to imply that the upgrade from v4 to v5 caused this.
    I guess in v4 a NULL value implies !all and the upgrade process replaces
    NULL with +all (oops).
    
    -=Kevin=-
    
    -----Original Message-----
    From: Kevin O'Brien 
    Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 10:33 AM
    To: bugtraqat_private
    Subject: Tunnel ports allowed on NetApp NetCaches
    
    
    We discovered a extremely dangerous option in our NetCaches.  There is an
    option config.http.tunnel.allow_ports that is set by default to +all that
    allows anyone to tunnel through your cache to any tcp port.  We discovered
    this after we found people using it to send spam email by tunneling to port
    25 on outside mail servers.
    
    To see if you are affected, connect to the console of the NetCache (not to
    the HTML gui) and type show config.http.tunnel.allow_ports.  If it says +all
    you are allowing all ports to be tunneled.  To fix this, type set
    config.http.tunnel.allow_ports !all.  This will disallow any tunneling.
    
    If you have +all you will want to look through your logs for anything using
    the CONNECT method instead of GET to see what ports outside people connected
    to.  Fortunately, we only saw ports 443 and 25 to hosts outside our network.
    
    BTW, I contacted NetApp on Friday about this and they are still trying to
    write a Field Alert to their customers...and I thought M$ was slow.
    
    Kevin O'Brien
    Systems/Network Administrator
    E! Online, LLC
    323.692.4742
    323.692.4700 fax
    



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