Installing and configuring iptables firewall on CentOs 7

First install iptables with this command

sudo yum install iptables-services

Now start iptables

sudo service iptables start

Use the below command to flush any existing rules that might be there

sudo iptables -F

Now add rules one by one by executing the following commands

Block null packets

sudo iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --tcp-flags ALL NONE -j DROP

Reject is a syn-flood attack

sudo iptables -A INPUT -p tcp ! --syn -m state --state NEW -j DROP

XMAS packets

sudo iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --tcp-flags ALL ALL -j DROP

Allow localhost traffic

sudo iptables -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT

Allow http port 80

sudo iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT

Allow https port 443

sudo iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 443 -j ACCEPT

Allow SMTP

sudo iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 25 -j ACCEPT
sudo iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 465 -j ACCEPT

Allow POP3

sudo iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 110 -j ACCEPT
sudo iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 995 -j ACCEPT

Allow IMAP

sudo iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 143 -j ACCEPT
sudo iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 993 -j ACCEPT

Allow SSH

sudo iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 22 -j ACCEPT

Caution: You could potentially loose ssh access to your server if you are not careful with this. If you have changed the SSH port number and are not using the default port 22 to login then replace 22 with the appropriate port number.

Allow established outgoing connections to receive incoming replies.

sudo iptables -I INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT

Now allow all outgoing connections and block all the incoming connections except the ones we have explicitly allowed in the above rules.

sudo iptables -P OUTPUT ACCEPT
sudo iptables -P INPUT DROP

Now save the firewall rules

sudo iptables-save | sudo tee /etc/sysconfig/iptables

or

sudo iptables-save > /etc/sysconfig/iptables

Enable

sudo systemctl enable iptables

Now restart iptables

sudo service iptables restart

or

sudo systemctl restart iptables

Useful command:
List iptables firewall rules

sudo iptables -S
sudo iptables -L -n
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