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Date:      Fri, 09 Feb 2001 23:52:22 +0100
From:      Borja Marcos <borjamar@sarenet.es>
To:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: nfsd support for tcp_wrapper -> General RPC solution
Message-ID:  <3A8474A6.D5D0DCE9@sarenet.es>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.33.0102091125000.59792-100000@deneb.dbai.tuwien.ac.at> <3A83C933.8F89DC69@sarenet.es> <20010209133615.P26076@fw.wintelcom.net>

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Alfred Perlstein wrote:

> This is a really flawed idea.

	Humm. Yours is a flawed reading of my message? ;-)

> All portmap does is provide a name/version/protocol mapping of a
> service to a tcp/udp port.  One can trivially do a portscan of
> a box running RPC services and figure out which are open.  You
> don't need portmap to brute force finding out where a remote
> vulnerable service is located.

	But if portmap can set up the right rules for ipfw,
the brute force portscan will have no success. (read below)

> 
> In fact because afaik NFS always uses a well known port, you really
> don't need portmap to map it, you just need to use the port,
> portmapper for NFS is just a formality.
> 
> Ok, with that out of the window, we _could_ consider mucking userland
> mountd to use tcpwrappers to graft an ACL to what's in /etc/exports.
> This is also a bad idea, one can just brute force the NFS
> cookie/filehandle required to gain access, then contact the NFS
> port.
> 
> The solution is to use a firewall.

	Yes, and what about having portmap set the right firewall
rules to protect RPC services? Whenever a service registers itself
to portmap, it puts firewall rules to block access to the port.
That is what I am proposing!

	Yes, NFS uses a fixed port, but not other RPC services.


	Borja.


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