Nmap Development: Re: TCP Resource Exhaustion Attacks

["Michael Pattrick" <mpattrick () rhinovirus org>]

On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 7:15 AM, Fyodor <fyodor () insecure org> wrote:
> It is only peripherally related to Nmap, but there was a lot of news
> yesterday regarding vaguely described attacks on TCP services.  The
> research was done by the UnicornScan folks.  I've speculated on the
> details and implications here:
>
> http://insecure.org/stf/tcp-dos-attack-explained.html
>
> Cheers,
> -F
I have to say, Ill be highly disappointed if you are correct. As you
pointed out, this attack is really old and if I'm not mistaken can be
resolved with the iptables limit feature.

Cheers,
Michael

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