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

Peter Galbavy peter.galbavy at knowtion.net
Wed Apr 21 06:45:36 UTC 2004


E.B. Dreger wrote:
> I don't think we're even that far along.  If I'm reading FreeBSD
> 4.9 and NetBSD 1.6.2 source correctly,
>
> /usr/src/sys/netinet/in_pcb.c

Should have stretched as far as OpenBSD then. Same file.

> tells all.

> AFAIK, sequential search is about it.  Try a port number, verify
> that the src/dist ip+port combination is available, then go on to
> the next lport if the guessed one is in use.

As far as I can see - I have never read the code before, just the commit
messages - the OpenBSD version does a circular, random search between high
and low targets.

Peter






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