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SubjectRe: tcp vulnerability? haven't seen anything on it here...
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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.
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