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SubjectRe: tcp vulnerability? haven't seen anything on it here...
On Thu, 22 Apr 2004, Giuliano Pochini wrote:

>
> On 21-Apr-2004 David S. Miller wrote:
> > On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 19:03:40 +0200
> > Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> wrote:
> >
> >> Heise.de made it appear, as if the only news was that with tcp
> >> windows, the propability of guessing the right sequence number is not
> >> 1:2^32 but something smaller. They said that 64k packets would be
> >> enough, so guess what the window will be.
> >
> > Yes, that is their major discovery. You need to guess the ports
> > and source/destination addresses as well, which is why I don't
> > consider this such a serious issue personally.
>
> Yes, but it is possible, expecially for long sessions. Also,
> data injections is also possible with the same method, because
> the receiver accepts everything inside the window, which is
> usually 64k. Out of curiosity: in case Linux receives two
> packets relative to the same portion of the stream, does it
> check if the overlapping data is the same ? It would add extra
> security about data injection in case the data has not been
> sent to userspace yet.
>
>

Has anybody checked to see what Linux does if it receives a
RST to the broadcast address? It would be a shame if all
connections were dropped!


Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.4.26 on an i686 machine (5557.45 BogoMips).
Note 96.31% of all statistics are fiction.


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