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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: alex@pilosoft.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, <netdev@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: tcp vulnerability?  haven't seen anything on it here...
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 12:31:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87smevrno9.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0404221030240.2738-100000@paix.pilosoft.com> (alex@pilosoft.com's message of "Thu, 22 Apr 2004 10:37:42 -0400 (EDT)")

alex@pilosoft.com writes:

> Not quite. With a SYN you have to respond with exactly the same sequence 
> number as attacking host in order to establish connection. With RST, your 
> sequence number needs to be +- rwin in order to kill the connection. That 
> significantly reduces search space.

Don't forget that you can tear down a connection by sending a SYN in
the correct window as well.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-04-23 10:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-21 15:25 tcp vulnerability? haven't seen anything on it here Chris Friesen
2004-04-21 16:02 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-04-21 16:25   ` Chris Friesen
2004-04-21 17:03     ` Jörn Engel
2004-04-21 20:20       ` David S. Miller
2004-04-22  0:45         ` James Morris
2004-04-22  5:04           ` Willy Tarreau
2004-04-22  8:23         ` Giuliano Pochini
2004-04-22 11:35           ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-04-22 13:17             ` Willy Tarreau
2004-04-22 13:42               ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-04-22 14:18                 ` Willy Tarreau
2004-04-22 20:25                   ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-04-22 21:08                     ` Willy Tarreau
2004-04-22 18:28             ` David S. Miller
2004-04-22 13:22           ` jamal
2004-04-22 13:46             ` Giuliano Pochini
2004-04-22 14:27               ` jamal
2004-04-22 14:37                 ` alex
2004-04-22 15:17                   ` jamal
2004-04-22 15:27                     ` alex
2004-04-22 17:38                       ` Horst von Brand
2004-04-22 21:15                         ` Florian Weimer
2004-04-22 15:42                   ` Chris Friesen
2004-04-22 15:47                     ` alex
2004-04-23 10:31                   ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2004-04-22 13:58             ` Florian Weimer
2004-04-23 13:55             ` Florian Weimer
2004-04-23 14:15             ` alex
2004-04-23 14:25               ` jamal
2004-04-22 20:01         ` Ranjeet Shetye
2004-04-22 21:26         ` Sridhar Samudrala
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-04-21 17:27 Fabian Uebersax
2004-04-21 20:26 ` David S. Miller
2004-04-21 21:39   ` Florian Weimer
2004-04-21 23:02     ` Willy Tarreau

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