RE: UPDATE: [wcolburn@nmt.edu: SMTP relay through checkpoint fire wall]

From: Corey J. Steele (csteele@good-sam.com)
Date: 02/22/02 

From: "Corey J. Steele" <csteele@good-sam.com>
To: "Proescholdt timo" <Timo.Proescholdt@brk-muenchen.de>
Date: 22 Feb 2002 07:57:33 -0600

FYI,

Trend's Interscan 3.6 running on Linux is not vulnerable to this (we are
using Interscan in conjunction with squid.)

-C

On Wed, 2002-02-20 at 17:55, Proescholdt, timo wrote:
>
> > It's not just Checkpoint Firewall that has a problem with HTTP
> CONNECT.>
> > From what I can tell default installations of the CacheFlow web proxy
> > software, some Squid installations, some Apache installations with
> > proxying enabled, and some other web proxy installations I haven't
> > identified allow anyone to use the HTTP CONNECT method. This is being
>
> Finjan-SurfinGate/4.0 ( NT ) is "vulnerable" , Trend Micro Interscan
> Viruswall ( 3.51 ) ( NT ) as well. Both do not seem to have a
> configuration
> switch to change this behaviour.
> Squid 2.3 STABLE 1 seems not to be affected by this issue, as there is
> no
> CONNECT Method allowed in default configuration.
>
> greetings
> timo 

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