ICMP attacks against TCP
Mike Silbersack
silby at silby.com
Fri Aug 13 10:36:49 PDT 2004
On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, Steve Zweep wrote:
> Has anyone seen the recently published IETF draft regarding ICMP attacks
> against TCP?
> [http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-gont-tcpm-icmp-attacks-00.txt]
>
> I'm interested in any comments as to the vulnerability of FreeBSD's TCP to
> such attacks and the need for or usefulness of the various solutions proposed
> in the paper.
>
> Thanks, all
>
> - Steve
Back when the RST semi-blind attacks came out, I double-checked our ICMP
code for the same condition. It turns out that this was fixed by one of
our developers years and years ago. I can't recall the exact version of
the change now, but I believe it occured around 4.1 or 4.2.
So, it could use some quick review, but I think we're good here.
Mike "Silby" Silbersack
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