Re: [Full-disclosure] Vulnerability in TCP

[Fernando Gont <fernando.gont@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 10:14 PM, <Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx> wrote:

The problem was known for a long time before that:
> R.T. Morris, "A Weakness in the 4.2BSD UNIX TCP/IP Software",
> CSTR 117, 1985, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ.
> http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/~rtm/papers/117-abstract.html<http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/%7Ertm/papers/117-abstract.html>
>
> Any vendor still botching it in 2010 deserves to be mocked mercilessly.
>

 FWIW, CPNI (http://www-cpni.gov.uk) published a very thorough technical
report on TCP security:
http://www.cpni.gov.uk/Docs/tn-03-09-security-assessment-TCP.pdf

An the IETF is currently workin on a RFC version of it:
http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-ietf-tcpm-tcp-security-01.txt . This one is
the original IETF individual submission, which contains those sections that
have not yet been commited to the IETF-adopted one:
http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-gont-tcp-security-00.txt

Thanks,
Fernando Gont

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