Security hole found in Gauntlet

Security hole found in Gauntlet
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2001-09-04

NAI firewall suffers second serious hole. Experts ask, is anything safe?

Concept error 2001-09-05
damia (at) damia (dot) net [email concealed]

I think the bug is terrible, but cuolb be minimized.

I don't understand why the firewall is not only a packet filtering machine, and performs other actions like http filtering, smtp, being an application level gateway firewall. I use to install a machine dedicated exclusively to packet filtering,...

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Trusted OS? 2001-09-10
Andrew Thomas (andrew (at) webmail.co (dot) za [email concealed])

What is the current state of firewall software based on Trusted OS's?

Surely a design involving compartementalization of individual application level proxies would provide a more(not perfect as the breaks on Pitbull proved) secure environment?

I think that it's unreasonable to expect all these...

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