Firewall blocking desktop features
Pierre-Yves Chibon
pingou at pingoured.fr
Thu Sep 12 06:25:21 UTC 2013
> Application should request the ports to be opened and the firewalld
> layer should then confirm with the user stating which ports and
> which app requested said ports. The app can't lie if the firewall
> layer is the one asking for confirmation.
But a malicious app can pretend to be another one, unless there is a way for the
firewall to know which app is asking in a way that cannot be forged.
Pierre
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