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Re: [FW-1] A little off Topic - Unknown Port

Subject: Re: [FW-1] A little off Topic - Unknown Port
From: Crist Clark <crist.clark AT GLOBALSTAR DOT COM>
To: FW-1-MAILINGLIST AT AMADEUS.US.CHECKPOINT DOT COM
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 16:17:49 -0700
Mitchell Rowton wrote:
>
> It seemed like the original post was pointing out what you are saying
> now.  "This is strange traffic, anybody know about it?"  I think the
> odds are its not malicious traffic (as you said) but its still broken.
> There are some malicious programs that use port 60001 and some OS's
> that accepts TCP Broadcast (BSD.)

That it ever did was a bug. I fixed it in FreeBSD, and it's been fixed in
the other most popular BSD variants,

  http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/262733
  http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4309

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