Lockergnome Report - Firewalls not blocking ANY IPv6 traffic
Posted by Daniel Fleshbourne on 20 May 2003 - 07:38 · 10 comments & 2120 views
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#1 Posted by SanGreal on 20 May 2003 - 07:48
- [QUOTE]Ten to one says Microsoft will never share this bit of news with the world.[/QUOTE]
Pretty stupid comment considering his own article provides this link: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q306203
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#2 Posted by howard on 20 May 2003 - 08:30
- [QUOTE]tring to fiqure[/QUOTE]Shouldn't that be 'trying to figure'?
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#2.1 Posted by Quick Reply on 20 May 2003 - 08:37
- [neoquote=#2.0 by howard][QUOTE]tring to fiqure[/QUOTE]Shouldn't that be 'trying to figure'? [/neoquote]
I was just about to say that
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#3 Posted by rx-- on 20 May 2003 - 08:40
- The IPv6 patch I installed for 3Degrees included an IPv6 Internet Connection Firewall.. or at least it installed a new service titled something like that.
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#4 Posted by vacs on 20 May 2003 - 09:40
- since IPv6 is not enabled by default, this is not much of a problem.
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#5 Posted by ElGato on 20 May 2003 - 10:24
- Scaremongering at the expense of MS again.
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#6 Posted by Tom Servo on 20 May 2003 - 12:26
- Yeah please start whining about an unfiltered network protocol that's in experimental status in Windows, only used on test networks and still with RFC changes pending!
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#7 Posted by Mr. Black on 20 May 2003 - 12:30
- IPv6 is not in widespread use right now so it is nothing to worry about for the moment. However, if Microsoft hasn't fixed this by Longhorn, there is some concern because IPv6 is going to start showing up in the masses soon.
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#8 Posted by Spider_Man on 22 May 2003 - 16:21
- Guys, IPv6 is used on the INternet already. We hava a few Hackers that try to hack our customers servers or some that try Denial of Service attacks and even a few smurf attacks that are using IPv6 Packets to do so. It's just not widespread enough for people to freak out that bad. IPv6 is easily filtered too. Use your packet filter and just tell it to discard all packets that contain IPv6 header information. I mean, if you're gonna worry about somkething why worry about something as insignificant as IPv6.
Then, there are gems like this one [Firewalls not blocking ANY IPv6 traffic -Ed] Does the Windows firewall protect you from all incoming traffic? Not if it's IPv6! While it's not much of a threat today, I can easily see it turning into one tomorrow. Their solution: "To work around this behavior, obtain firewall software that can filter and block IPv6 traffic." How come nobody warned me about this?
Why isn't the tech press all over this serious oversight?! And, most importantly, when (if ever) will a patch be issued to bring the software up-to-date? Seriously, you might wanna tell your friends about this "little" technicality. Ten to one says Microsoft will never share this bit of news with the world. Of course, until the first exploit is unleashed. By then, it'll be two seconds too late. Feel free to link back to today's issue (permalink is the date in this Report's title bar). Once more, your subscription to Lockergnome may have saved your system from a future meltdown.
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