On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 7:39 PM, Angus Scott-Fleming <[email protected]> wrote:
> This was on the bugtraq list on Wednesday.  It would be a
> Good Thing if we could block heartbeat queries to
> internal devices which may not be patched using something
> like this ...

That doesn't really work. It'll block some legit traffic, and is
extremely easy to evade. Other issues with it discussed on Full
Disclosure.

pf doesn't have the ability to filter the way iptables is in this
config, but I wouldn't recommend it even if it did.

Security work-arounds are terrible to begin with, but if you're going
to use one, there is a half-decent answer. A patched reverse proxy is
the answer if you have servers that must be accessible to untrusted
networks, but can't be patched immediately for whatever reason. There
should be no reason not to patch at this point, everything that's a
reasonable choice for an Internet-reachable server has had patches
available for days. Effectively blocking this at the firewall/network
level is impossible.
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