Re: New tcp stack attack

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To: Peter J. Philipp <pjp@...>
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Date: Wednesday, October 1, 2008 - 1:31 pm

At 01:56 p.m. 01/10/2008, Peter J. Philipp wrote:

>I listened to the podcast and got the idea that the socket is in

That was just an example of the type of resources that could be exhausted.

>Perhaps you establish the session and

That would be Shalunov's netkill attack, which aims at exhausting
memory by tying it to both PCBs and socket send buffers.

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New tcp stack attack, Leon Dippenaar, (Wed Oct 1, 8:52 am)
Re: New tcp stack attack, Jussi Peltola, (Wed Oct 1, 11:56 am)
Re: New tcp stack attack, Duncan Patton a Campbell, (Wed Oct 1, 10:13 am)
Re: New tcp stack attack, Fernando Gont, (Wed Oct 1, 11:24 am)
Re: New tcp stack attack, Duncan Patton a Campbell, (Wed Oct 1, 11:41 am)
Re: New tcp stack attack, Fernando Gont, (Wed Oct 1, 12:26 pm)
Re: New tcp stack attack, Peter J. Philipp, (Wed Oct 1, 12:56 pm)
Re: New tcp stack attack, Sunnz, (Fri Oct 3, 12:18 pm)
Re: New tcp stack attack, Fernando Gont, (Wed Oct 1, 1:31 pm)
Re: New tcp stack attack, Peter J. Philipp, (Wed Oct 1, 2:11 pm)
Re: New tcp stack attack, Brian Keefer, (Wed Oct 1, 10:37 pm)
Re: New tcp stack attack, Stephan A. Rickauer, (Wed Oct 1, 9:31 am)
Re: New tcp stack attack, Claudio Jeker, (Wed Oct 1, 9:58 am)
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Re: New tcp stack attack, Duncan Patton a Campbell, (Wed Oct 1, 10:22 am)
Re: New tcp stack attack, Dries Schellekens, (Wed Oct 1, 10:47 am)
Re: New tcp stack attack, Dries Schellekens, (Wed Oct 8, 7:12 am)
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