Summary: | [MFC] [PATCH] tcp_input does insufficient RST validation, also more general LAND attacks are possible | ||||||
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Product: | Base System | Reporter: | Don Lewis <Don.Lewis> | ||||
Component: | kern | Assignee: | freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs> | ||||
Status: | Closed FIXED | ||||||
Severity: | Affects Only Me | ||||||
Priority: | Normal | ||||||
Version: | 3.0-CURRENT | ||||||
Hardware: | Any | ||||||
OS: | Any | ||||||
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Description
Don Lewis
1998-09-11 09:20:01 UTC
<<On Fri, 11 Sep 1998 01:13:55 -0700 (PDT), Don Lewis <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com> said: > The following patch tightens up the RST validation. It also breaks the > loop in the general form of the "LAND" attack which would cause the sockets > to keep sending ACKs to each other, and it sends a RST to clean things up > in the case where we know something is amiss. Great job, Don. I'll commit this today if nobody beats me to it. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick State Changed From-To: open->suspended Awaiting merge into 2.2. I thought that the LAND attacks were squelched in rev 1.68 . Bill State Changed From-To: suspended->closed Was fixed by wollman at 1998/09/11 09:04:04 PDT in -current and merged to -stable by guido in rev 1.54.2.11. |