From: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
To: root@chaos.analogic.com
Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: tcp vulnerability? haven't seen anything on it here...
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 12:25:27 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4086A077.2000705@nortelnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0404211153550.1169@chaos>
Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> The vulnerabilities were discussed on US news reports as being
> like somebody discovered they could disconnect your electricity
> if they had some wire-cutters.
>
> Those guys in the UK just don't have anything else to do! It
> seems that they discovered that if you tap-into some network
> physical media you could disrupt it!
The impression I got was that some equipment was much more vulnerable
due to having a) massive windows, and b) using sequential source ports,
making it much easier to guess even if you can't tap the line.
Chris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-21 16:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ 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 [this message]
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
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
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