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Re: Massive stupidity (Was: Re: TCP vulnerability)

  • From: Sean Donelan
  • Date: Tue Apr 20 17:57:12 2004

On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
> Anyone who seriously wanted to protect against this attack could easily
> deploy RST rate limits against their management interfaces, rather than
> run around trying to set up MD5 with every peer. As a long term
> improvement, a random ephemeral port selection process could be used.

Insufficient to completely protect against the identified vulnerabilities.
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