kern/116645: pfctl -k does not work in securelevel 3

[James Lauser]

I understand that this is defined behavior, which is why I filed the  
PR as a change-request.  I believe it would be useful to modify the  
state table as a means of preventing an ongoing attack, even if the  
kernel is in securelevel 3.  Changes to the state table are not  
technically changes to the firewall rules.  It is currently possible,  
however, to make changes to pf tables through pfctl -T, even in  
securelevel 3, and this feature _is_ actually changing the firewall  
rules (though this may be an unintended feature).


--  James L. Lauser
     james at jlauser.net
     Owner, jlauser.net Hosting Services
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On Nov 16, 2007, at 12:53 , kmacy at FreeBSD.org wrote:

> Synopsis: pfctl -k does not work in securelevel 3
>
> State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
> State-Changed-By: kmacy
> State-Changed-When: Fri Nov 16 17:52:23 UTC 2007
> State-Changed-Why:
>
>> From the securelevel man page:
>     3     Network secure mode - same as highly secure mode, plus IP  
> packet
>           filter rules (see ipfw(8), ipfirewall(4) and pfctl(8))  
> cannot be
>           changed and dummynet(4) or pf(4) configuration cannot be  
> adjusted.
>
> You are seeing the defined behavior.
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=116645