On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 01:51:12PM +0200, Frankye - ML wrote: [...] > Additionally, the 4.4BSD stack from which NetBSD's stack is derived, did > not even check that a RST's sequence number was inside the window. RSTs > anywhere to the left of the window were treated as valid. > > The fact that this has gone unnoticed for so long is an indication that > there have not been a large number of RST/SYN DoS attacks ocurring in the > wild. Hmm, is this the same issue that we corrected in 1998? Certainly we became aware of it because it *was* being exploited. Cheers, -- Jacques Vidrine / [email protected] / [email protected] / [email protected] _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"