Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268878AbUIMT0U (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Sep 2004 15:26:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268883AbUIMT0U (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Sep 2004 15:26:20 -0400 Received: from hibernia.jakma.org ([212.17.55.49]:15773 "EHLO hibernia.jakma.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268878AbUIMT0T (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Sep 2004 15:26:19 -0400 Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 20:25:35 +0100 (IST) From: Paul Jakma X-X-Sender: paul@fogarty.jakma.org To: Tonnerre cc: Willy Tarreau , Toon van der Pas , Alan Cox , Wolfpaw - Dale Corse , kaukasoi@elektroni.ee.tut.fi, Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.27 SECURITY BUG - TCP Local and REMOTE(verified) Denial of Service Attack In-Reply-To: <20040913190741.GD19399@thundrix.ch> Message-ID: References: <002301c498ee$1e81d4c0$0200a8c0@wolf> <1095008692.11736.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20040912192331.GB8436@hout.vanvergehaald.nl> <20040913041846.GD2780@alpha.home.local> <20040913190741.GD19399@thundrix.ch> X-NSA: arafat al aqsar jihad musharef jet-A1 avgas ammonium qran inshallah allah al-akbar martyr iraq saddam hammas hisballah rabin ayatollah korea vietnam revolt mustard gas british airways washington MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 698 Lines: 21 On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, Tonnerre wrote: > Problem there: you can fake connection errors almost as easily as > sending an RST packet, so the DoS might reappear, might it not? Sure, but TCP just isnt going to solve this for you. > Tonnerre regards, -- Paul Jakma paul@clubi.ie paul@jakma.org Key ID: 64A2FF6A Fortune: All progress is based upon a universal innate desire of every organism to live beyond its income. -- Samuel Butler, "Notebooks" - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/