TCP RST attack (the cause of all that MD5-o-rama)

Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
Tue Apr 20 20:49:01 UTC 2004


On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 15:40:38 EDT, "Patrick W.Gilmore" said:

> Assuming a well randomized starting sequence number (just give me this 
> one for the moment),

Nope.  I won't give you that one, because that's a big chunk of the
problem:

http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/newtcp/ (one year later)
http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html  (original paper)

It seems that Cisco has its act mostly together, but a *LOT* of other
vendors don't, even a year after...
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