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From: Michael Atighetchi <matighet@bbn.com>
To: "Aldo S. Lagana" <alagana@discmail.com>
Cc: netfilter@lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: CERT Vulnerability Note VU#539363
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 17:25:01 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021028222501.GK26387@bbn.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000601c27ece$da3a6ce0$3864a8c0@discmail.com>

TCP SYN cookies might offer some protection against this. It is
implemented in the 2.4 series Linux kernels.

Michael


On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 05:10:40PM -0500, Aldo S. Lagana wrote:
> http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/539363
> 
> I haven't seen any reference to this in the list - sorry for the spam if
> it has been discussed - anybody have an idea?
> 
> All the linux vendors listed so far have no response - RedHat and SuSE.
> NetBSD and OpenBSD claim invulnerable.
> 
> 

-- 
matighet@bbn.com   BBN Technologies


      reply	other threads:[~2002-10-28 22:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-28 22:10 CERT Vulnerability Note VU#539363 Aldo S. Lagana
2002-10-28 22:25 ` Michael Atighetchi [this message]

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