TMS zl Management and Configuration Guide ST.1.1.100430

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Overview
IDS/IPS
By default, the TMS zl Module provides protocol-anomaly detection for the
following applications:
■ HTTP
• Check for URL decoding in the URL request
• Check for directory traversal beyond the root directory
• Check for NULL method
• Check for evasion techniques
• Check for the length of the URL request (user-configurable)
• Check for a number of lines per header that exceeds the maximum
limit (user-configurable)
• Check for a MIME header size that exceeds the maximum limit (user-
configurable)
• Check for the number of MIME headers
• Check for the MIME header line length
■ SMTP
• Ensure that the command line does not exceed 512 bytes
• Check the recursive boundary depth in SMTP data
• Check for a header length that exceeds the maximum limit (user-
configurable)
■ FTP
• Ensure that the command line does not exceed 512 bytes
■ IMAP
• Check for malformed requests (the command line lacks the proper
tag, command, and so forth)
■ POP3
• Ensure that the command line does not exceed 512 bytes
■ DNS
• Check for a DNS reply without a valid request
• Check for unknown DNS operation flags
• Check for a domain name greater than 255 bytes
• Check for a label size greater than 63 bytes
• Check for an invalid DNS label offset
• Check the resource record (RR) count and match it with the number
in the RR record
• Ensure that a label reference is with the message