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Re: Cisco VPN Concentrator IKE resource exhaustion DoS Advisory
- To: Eloy Paris <elparis@xxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: Cisco VPN Concentrator IKE resource exhaustion DoS Advisory
- From: Pavel Kankovsky <peak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 15:50:58 +0200 (CEST)
On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Eloy Paris wrote:
> The attack against the Internet Key Exchange (IKE) protocol described
> in the NTA Monitor advisory exploits the stateless nature of the IKE
> version 1 protocol. The goal of such an attack is to deplete the
> resources available on a device to negotiate IKE security associations,
> and block legitimate users from establishing a new security association.
"Stateless"? Wasn't it supposed to read "stateful"?
--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
"Resistance is futile. Open your source code and prepare for assimilation."