RE: SGS 5400 firewalls

From: Paul Melson (pmelson@gmail.com)
Date: Fri Mar 03 2006 - 09:24:36 EST


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Subject: SGS 5400 firewalls

> anyone ever have to pen test on a network with a SGS 5400 firewall?
wondering if any
> vulnerabilities exist... any info would be great. thanks in advance!

SGS 5400 is Symantec Enterprise Firewall (aka Raptor) on Linux on x86. It's
a proxy-based firewall, and the operating system itself is pretty well
shielded by the firewall. You may find some ideas of services to go after
by reading the documentation:

http://www.symantec.com/techsupp/enterprise/products/sym_gateway_security/sy
m_gw_security_201_5400/manuals.html

But instead of looking for actual flaws in the product, your time would
probably be better spent looking for flaws in the configuration. For
instance, I would say that it is the exception to find a SEF/Raptor where
the DNS proxy has been set up correctly.

PaulM

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