Nmap Development: Re: TCP Resource Exhaustion Attacks

[Fyodor <fyodor () insecure org>]

On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 09:10:21PM +0000, Brandon Enright wrote:
> I think the only reason why a Nmap user or Nmap dev should care is that
> if vendors start modifying their TCP/IP attacks to either patch a real
> bug, or look like they patched a bug, a lot of OS fingerprints are
> likely to need to be added.
That would be truly awesome (for Nmap).  Earlier TCP/IP security
tweaks such as randomized ISN's and randomized IPIDs were a big help
in distinguishing operating systems, as were non-security-related
changes such as the selective ACK option and ECN.  I should join a
working group on improving TCP DoS resiliency just so I can promote
changes which Nmap OS detection can distinguish :).

Cheers,
-F

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