Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: tcp vulnerability? haven't seen anything on it here... | From | jamal <> | Date | 23 Apr 2004 10:25:32 -0400 |
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Clarification: I think the latency of my earlier email introduced by probably netdev is creating a lot of "hostile" responses to me ;-> I feel like i am in hostile path here ;-> I sent that email a long time ago, seems like netdev or my ISP decided to deliver it now and reordered the delivery. This has happened to me a few times before with netdev thats why i prefer to cc people whenever i can (worst case they receive more than one message) Consider that message obsolete. I know you can create this problem via brute force as you explained in your later email (that showed up yesterday).
cheers, jamal
On Fri, 2004-04-23 at 10:15, alex@pilosoft.com wrote: > > And for something like a huge download to just regular joe, this is more > > of a nuisance assuming some kiddie has access between you and the > > server. OTOH, long lived BGP sessions are affected assuming you are > > going across hostile path to your peer. > Again - no hostile path necessary. Attack is brute-force and does not rely > on MITM. > > > So whats all this ado about nothing? Local media made it appear we are > > all about to die. > Pretty much. > > > > Is anyone working on some fix? > In networking world, there was a craze of enabling TCP-MD5 for BGP > sessions reacting to this attack. There is alternative solution, "TTL > hack", relying that most BGP sessions are between directly-connected > routers, so if connection originator sets TTL to 255 and receiver verifies > that TTL on incoming packet is 255, you can be reasonably certain that the > packet was sent by someone directly connected to you. ;) > > -alex > >
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