[nsp-sec] Potential TCP / IP vulnerabilities announcedmidOctober - Outpost24 interview

Florian Weimer fweimer at bfk.de
Wed Oct 1 11:53:56 EDT 2008


* Eronen Juhani:

> Outpost24 contacted us at CERT-FI to coordinate fixing this flaw.
> Unfortunately they also chose to present on the issues all the
> same. In many senses the issue has a certain Kaminsky-ring to
> it. Their attack draws on known issues, and the question here really
> is if the attack has anything new and significant to contribute. We
> are still in the process of determining this.

I would look at the tcpm mailing list.  Several unfixed TCP
vulnerabilities have been raised there over the years.  It's a huge
pile of unstructured information, though.

> We would like to hear more on these types of mitigations for
> existing attacks.

And we would like to hear more about their work (particularly speaking
with my spare-time vendor hat).

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