Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: tcp vulnerability? haven't seen anything on it here... | From | jamal <> | Date | 22 Apr 2004 11:17:26 -0400 |
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On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 10:37, alex@pilosoft.com wrote: > On 22 Apr 2004, jamal wrote: > > Its infact harder to create this attack compared to a simple > > SYN attack. > Not quite.
I meant a SYN Flood attack is a much trivial attack than this but the media may have gotten used to it by now.
> > 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?
> Inter-provider BGP is long-lived with close to fixed ports, which is why > it has caused quite a stir.
Makes sense. What would be the overall effect though? Route flaps?
> Nevertheless, number of packets to kill the session is still *large* > (under "best-case" for attacker, you need to send 2^30 packets)...
;->
cheers, jamal
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