"Workstation" Product defaults to wide-open firewall

[Christopher]

I just verified that I have the same default configuration from a clean
install. Not good at all. I expected more.


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On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 1:41 AM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I just happened to look at the firewalld default settings, and I was not
> amused when I noticed this:
> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/firewalld.git/tree/FedoraWorkstation.xml
> >  <port protocol="udp" port="1025-65535"/>
> >  <port protocol="tcp" port="1025-65535"/>
> This "firewall" is a joke! ALL higher ports are wide open!
>
> There had been a prior discussion on this list where they wanted to disable
> the firewall entirely. We told them that that's a horrible idea (which it
> is, of course!). But the result is that they implemented this "solution"
> which is almost entirely as bad, and which additionally gives users a false
> sense of security, because a "firewall" is "enabled" (for a very twisted
> definition of "enabled").
>
> IMHO, this is a major security issue that MUST be fixed. It also shows what
> horribly bad an idea per-Product configuration is.
>
> Yet another reason why you should NOT use "--product=workstation" to
> upgrade
> your F20 to F21 (ALWAYS use "--product=nonproduct"). Installing the
> "Workstation Product", or upgrading to it, will leave you with a totally
> insecure system.
>
>         Kevin Kofler
>
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