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Tag: Ports

Avoid the “Any” Rule Like the Plague!

January 7, 2010 Security, Software One comment

Even if next generation firewalls are at our door (filtering at applications level – layer 7), most firewalls are still working with source and destination ports. I often see firewall change requests submitted by customers to add rules like: “Allow traffic between X and Y” without further details. And when

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  • CVE-2022-35466 (otfcc) August 16, 2022
    OTFCC v0.10.4 was discovered to contain a heap-buffer overflow via /release-x64/otfccdump+0x6c0473.
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    OTFCC v0.10.4 was discovered to contain a heap-buffer overflow via /release-x64/otfccdump+0x6e420d.
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