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

[James]

ah yes.. forgot about that :)

Thanks,
-J

On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 08:24:02PM +0100, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, James wrote:
> 
> > i can see this 'attack' operational against a multihop bgp session that's
> > not md5'd.
> > 
> > now the question is... would this also affect single-hop bgp sessions?
> > my understanding would be no, as single-hops require ttl set to 1.
> 
> you can engineer packets to make sure they have the right ttl when they arrive, 
> ie if your 10 hops away, set ttl to 10 and it will be 1 on arrival :)
> 
> Steve
> 
> > 
> > -J
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 01:36:09PM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > http://www.uniras.gov.uk/vuls/2004/236929/index.htm
> > > 
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