Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: tcp vulnerability? haven't seen anything on it here... | Date | Thu, 22 Apr 2004 13:38:42 -0400 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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alex@pilosoft.com said: > > > > Unless i misunderstood: You need someone/thing to see about 64K > > > > packets within a single flow to make the predicition so the attack > > > > is succesful. Sure to have access to such capability is to be in a > > > > hostile path, no? ;-> > > > No, you do not need to see any packet.
> > Ok, so i misunderstood then. How do you predict the sequences without > > seeing any packet? Is there any URL to mentioned paper?
> You don't - just brute-force the tcp 4-tuple and sequence number. The > attack relies on the fact that you don't have to match sequence number > exactly, which cuts down on the search-space. (If total search space is > 2^32, rwin is 16k, effective attack search space is 2^32/16k). Multiplied > by number of ephemeral ports, it becomes *feasible* but still not very > likely.
If everybody (or at least the bigger knots) filters spoofed traffic, this ceases to be a problem. And that solves a shipload of other problems, so...
If the cracker has access to the connection between routers (quite unlikely for BGP), there is other, lower-hanging, fun to be had... and in that case they can just read the exact data from the stream, no guessing needed at all. And no protection possible either AFAICS. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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