Firewall IP Spoofing Vulnerability
Sygate IP Spoofing Vulnerability
Severity is HighSygate Personal Firewall 5.0 is a host-based Firewall designed to protect your PC against attacks from both the Internet, and other computers in the local network. If you are using this agent, please make sure you take the necessary precautions.
Sygate Personal Firewall 5.0 for windows platform contains an IP Spoofing vulnerability.
This vulnerability could allow an attacker with a source IP of "127.0.0.1" to Attack the host protected by Sygate Personal firewall without being detected. he Sygate Personal firewall is having a problem detecting incoming traffic with source ip 127.0.0.1 (loopback address)
Vulnerabilities with IP Spoofing attacks can happen by Scanning the host with a source ip address 127.0.0.1 or network address 127.0.0.0. The Attacker could scan or attack the target host without being detected by the personal firewall. This vulnerability is very serious as an attacker could start a Denial of Service attack against the spf protected host and launch many other forms of PC or system attacks.
Getting Secure Control
- 1] Set the SPF to BLOCK ALL mode setting. This type of setting would help block incoming and outgoing requests.
- 2] Block source address 127.0.0.1 or 127.0.0.0 network address manually in Advance rules section.(possibly up to 127.0.0.255)
- 3] You may want to run a "Spyware Scan" to check you current PC's system. This can be done using our "People's Choice" for best Digital Product.
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