Blocking UDP packet

sailwind · 03-30-2009, 09:16 PM

I want to deny a particular malicious UDP packet. I can readily identify this packet from the rest by looking at the data section, where data offset 2 is 0xaa, data[5] is 0xbb, etc. Are there any tools or code samples that can do this?

Basically, instead of seeing the packet in the following tcpdump, I want to block it. I started to write a proxy but realized I would need to keep sessions and that's a nightmare. Is there an easier way to do this? The firewalls I've seen only block based on port, not on data payload.

tcpdump -i eth1 udp[2:1] = 0xaa and udp[5:2] = 0xbbcc

datopdog · 04-01-2009, 02:46 AM

Not all firewalls are just based on port and stuff, iptables can match by strings. Take a look at the man page or run the command

Code:

iptables -m string -h

sailwind · 04-01-2009, 01:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by datopdog

Not all firewalls are just based on port and stuff, iptables can match by strings. Take a look at the man page or run the command

Code:

iptables -m string -h

Yeah, I finally found a way to do it in ip tables, although it's not often documented.

iptables -m string --hex-string "0xaabb" --from <byte> --to byte --algo bm

or

iptables -m u32 --u32 "Start&Mask=Range"

And that's working great for me. Are there anything similar on the windows platform?

archtoad6 · 04-08-2009, 04:07 AM

From man:/iptables:

Quote:

u32

U32 allows you to extract quantities of up to 4 bytes from a packet, AND them with specified masks, shift them by specified amounts and test whether the results are in any of a set of specified ranges. The specification of what to extract is general enough to skip over headers with lengths stored in the packet, as in IP or TCP header lengths.

(Please note: This match requires kernel support that might not be available in official Linux kernel sources or Debian's packaged Linux kernel sources. And if support for this match is available for the specific Linux kernel source version, that support might not be enabled in the current Linux kernel binary.)

Details and examples are in the kernel module source.

N.B. the underlined note -- this may not be available to all readers.

No thread on iptables would be complete w/o links to
Oskar Andreasson's (<oan@frozentux.net>) Iptables Tutorial found at: http://iptables-tutorial.frozentux.net/

There is an unnumbered "pretty" version at linuxtopia.org.