Re: Linux 2.4.27 SECURITY BUG - TCP Local and REMOTE(verified) Denial of Service Attack

From: Willy Tarreau
Date: Sun Sep 12 2004 - 14:57:09 EST


On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 01:42:26PM -0600, Wolfpaw - Dale Corse wrote:

> MD5 encryption was added to the sessions between
> routers to make hijacking the stream more difficult
> (if not next to impossible)

Correction : MD5 *signature* was added from the beginning since the problem
was identified from start, but seeing that certain people did not implement
it, others found interesting to turn this into a "generic TCP vulnerability"
to get some credits, or perhaps to make them react positively.

Regards,
Willy

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