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Check Point FireWall-1 Spoofed UDP Packet Remote DoS

medium Nessus Plugin ID 11905

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Synopsis

The remote firewall is affected by a denial of service vulnerability.

Description

The machine (or a router on the way) crashed when it was flooded by incorrect UDP packets. This attack was known to work against FireWall-1 3.0, 4.0 or 4.1

An attacker may use this flaw to shut down this server, thus preventing you from working properly.

Solution

If this is a FW-1, enable the antispoofing rule; Otherwise, contact your software vendor for a patch.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 11905

File Name: fw1_udp_DoS.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: remote

Family: Firewalls

Published: 10/23/2003

Updated: 8/8/2018

Configuration: Enable paranoid mode

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

Required KB Items: Settings/ParanoidReport

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Reference Information

BID: 1419