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Showing posts with label openbsd. Show all posts
Showing posts with label openbsd. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Redundant firewalls with OpenBSD, CARP and pfsync

I finally found a good description of redundant network configuration here. Too bad I can't apply it in practice.

Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Smashing The Kernel Stack For Fun And Profit

After reading the great Firewall Spotting with broken CRC I continued reading Phrack #60.
Surprisenly, there is another OpenBSD article Smashing The Kernel Stack For Fun And Profit.
I enjoyed it even more.

Interesting OpenBSD commits

http://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20070528213858 Especially this comment:
> Check protocol (TCP/UDP/ICMP/ICMP6) checksums of all incoming packets,
> and drop packets with invalid checksums. Without such a check, pf would
> return RST/ICMP errors even for packets with invalid checksums, which
> could be used to detect the presence of the firewall, reported by
> "Ed White" in http://www.phrack.org/phrack/60/p60-0x0c.txt.
The link above is broken, please go to http://www.phrack.org/issues.html?issue=60&id=12#article, very intersting reading.