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SubjectRe: Linux 2.4.27 SECURITY BUG - TCP Local and REMOTE(verified) Denial of Service Attack
Salut,

On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 06:18:47AM +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> > The BGP state machine should instead, in normal operation, have
> > only treated Hold time expired as the definitive sign of "peer is
> > down" and allowed reconnects.
>
> It should not necessarily wait for the time-out, but at least wait for
> a few reconnect errors.

Problem there: you can fake connection errors almost as easily as
sending an RST packet, so the DoS might reappear, might it not?

Tonnerre
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