[CS-FSLUG] Net-bios/file-sharing "attack"

Stephen J. McCracken smccracken at hcjb.org.ec
Wed Oct 12 11:08:56 CDT 2005


Ed Hurst wrote:

> Correction: 137 & 138, along with some odd stuff regarding ports 67 &
> 68. After further examination, I realize what I'm seeing are broadcasts
> from her machine to all points within our virtual LAN on SBC. Samples:
> 
> Oct 11 22:24:40 crunch kernel: ipfw: 900 Deny UDP 192.168.1.64:138
> 192.168.1.255:138 in via rl0
> Oct 12 07:59:36 crunch kernel: ipfw: 900 Deny UDP 192.168.1.64:68
> 255.255.255.255:67 in via rl0

Ports 67 & 68 are for DHCP and therefore need to be broadcast much
"wider" as it can't know the network it's on before receiving its ip
address.




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