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RFC-1644 (fwd)

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Date: Sat, 4 Apr 1998 19:21:58 +0600 (ESS)
From: Vasim Valejev <vasim () diaspro com>
To: freebsd-security () FreeBSD ORG
Subject: RFC-1644

Hi !

Transactions-TCP (RFC-1644) in FreeBSD (and other systems) can cause
 problems for security :

1. New variant of SYN-flood attack . Someone can send many T/TCP
 packets with fake originate address (any unreachable address) and
 overload (possible cause Denial-Of-Service) victim's server (for example -
 many T/TCP requests to telnet/ftp/http/etc daemons) .

2. Attack to r*-services (rshd/rlogind without kerberos-authentication) .
 Hacker can send T/TCP requests with originate address from /etc/hosts.equiv or
 .rhosts files . In some cases (computer with address from hacker's request
 can't send TCP-RST packet in time) it possible run commands on attacked
 target . My experiments shows what attacker just need 10-50 ms delay between
 victim sending SYN-ACK packet and receiving RST packet from trusted computer
 (it depends from algorithm rshd/rlogind , place DNS-server with reverse zone ,
 etc) . This attack can be used on other tcp-services with authentication
 based on ip-address .

RFC-1644 must die :( . My english too (*sigh*) . Just do
 'sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.rfc1644=0' and forget about it :) .

Vasim V. (2:5011/27 http://members.tripod.com/~Vasim VV86-RIPE)

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