SurfControl Bypass Vulnerability

["Witter, Franklin" <FWitter () BBANDT COM>]

It appears that there is yet another way to bypass the site blocking feature
of SurfControl for MS Proxy.

Our configuration:

We have set up our rules to deny access to anyone attempting to reach sites
classified as Adult/Sexually Explicit, Hacking, etc.
That would mean that anyone trying to reach www.blockedsite.com would
normally be denied access to the site.

The workaround:

1.  First, do an nslookup on www.blockedsite.com to get the IP address of
the site -- xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
2.  Next, convert each octet to an octal number using the windows calculator
-- yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy
3.  Insert eight (8) leading zeros in the first and third octets and seven
(7) leading zeros in the second and fourth octets --
00000000yyy.0000000yyy.00000000yyy.0000000yyy
4.  Type the modified octets into your browser's address bar and, viola!,
your are successfully bypassing the SurfControl filter.

I have contacted SurfControl about this but have had no response.

If anyone has any suggestions for correcting this vulnerability, please let
me know.

Franklin Witter
Network Security Specialist II
252-246-3546
fax:  252-246-3463
e-mail:  FWitter () BBandT com