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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