Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: tcp vulnerability? haven't seen anything on it here... | | From | Florian Weimer <> | | Date | Fri, 23 Apr 2004 12:31:02 +0200 |
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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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