port 5900 block

My system administrator told me to take down my Apple Airport Extreme because of a vulnerability. Administrator says:

"The remote host is an airport Apple Wireless Access Point.

can be administered on port TCP 5009.

There is a design flaw in the administrative protocol that makes

clients that connect to this port to send the password

clear (though slightly obsfuscated).

An attacker who has the ability to intercept data this will

device can use this flaw to get his administrative password and

its gain setting. From the airport to the base station does not keep all

Journal, it will be difficult to determine administrative access

has been stolen.

Solution:

Block incoming port traffic and administer only

This base station when connected using a cross-over ethernet

cable. »

I am brought to believe that Airport Extreme is not blocking ports, and to forward port 5900 to a non-existent address.

Can someone on this and perhaps provide clear instructions on how to forward a port to a non-existent address?

By default, as a NAT router, all incoming ports on the airport base stations are blocked. Has no way to specifically block ports (incoming or outgoing) through the AirPort Utility limit.

Your suggestion of redirecting from one port to a non-existent address should work.

For port mapping/forwarding, check out this Tip to the user for more details. As for the IP address to use, I suggest that take you a from outside the DHCP scope by default on the base... which is 10.0.1.2 - 10.0.1.200. So, 10.0.1.201 should do.

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