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Date:      Sat, 14 Feb 2004 13:11:12 +0100
From:      Clemens Fischer <ino-qc@spotteswoode.dnsalias.org>
To:        freebsd-ipfw@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Strange leakage of private source addresses w/ipfw and natd
Message-ID:  <oes1amix.fsf@ID-23066.news.dfncis.de>
References:  <3F833434.5090506@tenebras.com> <ekx0paff.fsf@ID-23066.news.dfncis.de> <020201c39c6e$5f0fea40$080ba8c0@admin>

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* 2003-10-27 freebsd@dwec.ru:

> Ok, maybe not THAT important but definitely a Bad Surprise.  Here's
> the sample (and in current configuration only ICMP packets from time
> to time are being passed through unaltered):
>
> snort: [1:0:0] POSSIBLE address leakage - ICMP {ICMP} 192.168.5.2 ->
> 208.115.104.193
> [**] POSSIBLE address leakage - ICMP [**]

ICMP is connectionless, so anybody can ping/traceroute/whatever your
machine if you don't block those private IPs, and this is what people
usually do.

  clemens



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