Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 23:43:03 +0300 From: Eygene Ryabinkin <rea-fbsd@codelabs.ru> To: Eirik ?verby <ltning@anduin.net> Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dropping syn+fin replies, but not really? Message-ID: <%2Bug4ae9RHVVTC7ztvaDEPTyd/iQ@iXA9ZWPrtc2I2BMzBXoToMd7YdQ> In-Reply-To: <FD5EC41D-02D2-46A7-9A32-AF500C98BF25@anduin.net> References: <FD5EC41D-02D2-46A7-9A32-AF500C98BF25@anduin.net>
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Eirik, good day.
Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 05:03:15PM +0100, Eirik ?verby wrote:
> I have a FreeBSD based firewall (pfsense) and, behind it, a few dozen
> FreeBSD servers. Now we're required to run external security scans
> (nessus++) on some of the hosts, and they constantly come back with a
> "high" or "medium" severity problem: The host replies to TCP packets
> with SYN+FIN set.
>
> Problem: Both the firewall (FreeBSD 6.2-based pfSense 1.2) and the
> host in question (recent FreeBSD 7.2-PRERELEASE) have
> net.inet.tcp.drop_synfin=1 - I would therefore expect this to be a non-
> issue.
First of all, (if I am correct) your firewall's setting for drop_synfin
isn't relevant for the packets that are traversing the firewall: TCP
input layer drops these and firewall isn't using this layer.
The easy way to identify if there are replies to SYN+FIN is to spawn
tcpdump on the firewall and see what's going on. It may be well so that
the some sort of scrubbing/modulation is done on the firewall, so when
firewall notices that the SYN + FIN is blackholed, it generates RST by
itself or just blocks SYN + FIN by itself, but sends RST. I am making
guesses here, because I can't test it just now and I have no idea about
your setup.
If I remember correctly, pf is used on the pfSense, so you can easily
block SYN + FIN on the ingress port(s):
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block in quick on $ingress proto tcp from any to <protected_hosts> \
flags SF/ASF
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