Re: [Full-disclosure] The cat is indeed out of the bag

["mokum von Amsterdam" <smokum@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 4:22 PM, Robert McKay <robert@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 3:36 AM, <monsieur.aglie@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> from chargen 19/udp by ecopeland
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>> 0.
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>> The cat is out of the bag. Yes, Halvar Flake figured out the flaw
>> Dan Kaminsky will announce at Black Hat.
>> 1.
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> I believe I may have found an important optimisation to this attack.
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> Basically I observed that if you make a DNS request with a very long QNAME
> then nameservers start dropping GLUE records in order to fit the reply into
> the maximum UDP packet size.

Are you not supposed to keep DNS issues under your hat and disclose at BH only?

Cheers
-- 
Mark Andrews wrote:
> ...  I like simple tools.
This is the list for you then -- there are lots of folk meeting the
description here... --- Nick FitzGerald

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