On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 06:08:45PM -0400, Robert Spangler wrote: > On Friday 23 April 2010 15:20, cahit Eyigünlü wrote: > > > how or why i have redesigned it to this and it seems like worked : > > See big problems in your future. > > > :INPUT ACCEPT [0:0] > > :FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0] > > :OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0] > > Anyone with a little bit of security awareness would never set the default > policy to ACCEPT and the reason is below. You would think RH would know > better. > > > -A INPUT -j RH-Firewall-1-INPUT > > -A FORWARD -j RH-Firewall-1-INPUT > > -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT > > -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -i eth0 -j ACCEPT > > With this rule above you just opened up you complete system to what ever it is > connected to. That is why it is working. I am hoping this box doesn't have > Internet access. > > > -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p icmp --icmp-type any -j ACCEPT > > -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p 50 -j ACCEPT > > -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p 51 -j ACCEPT > > -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p udp --dport 5353 -d 224.0.0.251 -j ACCEPT > > -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p udp -m udp --dport 631 -j ACCEPT > > -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 631 -j ACCEPT > > -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT > > -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 8443 -j > > ACCEPT > > -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 22 -j > > ACCEPT > > -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 25 -j > > ACCEPT > > -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 80 -j > > ACCEPT > > -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 21 -j > > ACCEPT > > "/etc/sysconfig/iptables" 40L, 1617C > > Even if you didn't have the line with '-i eth0 -j ACCEPT' you system was still > open to everyone because at this point if none of the rules apply and the > firewall falls back to the policy setting to decide what to do with a packet. > Since all your policies are set to ACCEPT the packet is accepted and the > hacker is in. > > For this reason one would think RH would do a little more and set the default > policies to DROP. It is so easy to miss the reject or drop statements at the > end and the policy would catch them for you. > > I know some will argue that RH did what they needed to do, but they could go > that extra step don't you think. Absolutely agree with you. It would save us from threads like that because people would need to read about iptables and stop to ask silly questions. -- Dominik Zyla -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 195 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20100429/523c38ca/attachment-0005.sig>