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From: Eric Dumazet <erdnetdev@gmail.com>
To: Zhiyun Qian <zhiyunq@umich.edu>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: TCP sequence number inference attack on Linux
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 11:30:34 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1356118234.21834.7800.camel@edumazet-glaptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALvgte-=v=bRnQ2HPDxyqxBOjD6DXp_BUySW6Hm7h+81M+RYMA@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, 2012-12-21 at 14:13 -0500, Zhiyun Qian wrote:
> That seems like a good idea. I am not sure how it is implemented
> though. Is it a new feature of Linux? Would you mind sending some
> pointers for this?

I dont have details, I only remember having to fix a memory allocation
error that was hitting Chrome users.


http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/249535


Julien said at that time :

<quote>
It happens when users start Chrome. Chrome will create one new network
NS (for the sandbox).

This has been used for a few years now, but we had our first report in
January of this year and we've been getting a few reports very
recently at a rate that is starting to worry me (crbug.com/110756).

Thanks a lot for helping with this!

Julien
</quote>

  reply	other threads:[~2012-12-21 19:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-21 17:58 TCP sequence number inference attack on Linux Zhiyun Qian
2012-12-21 18:31 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-12-21 18:52   ` Eric Dumazet
2012-12-21 19:13     ` Zhiyun Qian
2012-12-21 19:30       ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2012-12-22  2:13       ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2012-12-21 19:10   ` Zhiyun Qian
2012-12-21 19:27     ` Eric Dumazet
2012-12-21 19:49       ` Zhiyun Qian
2012-12-21 22:45         ` Eric Dumazet
2012-12-21 23:52           ` Zhiyun Qian
2012-12-22  0:01             ` Eric Dumazet
2012-12-22  0:04               ` Eric Dumazet
2012-12-22  0:08                 ` Zhiyun Qian

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