Vulnerability Development: Re: Naptha - New DoS

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Mon, 11 Dec 2000 09:47:54 +0100 Stephane Aubert wrote:

> Overview of the attack
> ======================
>
> This attack can be launched from several sources (such as ddos
> infected computers or else) and use a very specific RESET server.
[snip]

> New idea:
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>
> In order to consume resources on the victim ONLY and deny it, we use a
> reset server to close the connection on the attacker side.
Possibly, it's a good solution to use something similar to the traffic
shaper, which should permit no more than MAX_CONN_PER_IP open
connections from one given IP. I suppose, now it is a "must have"
feature of every firewall. The only disadvantage I can suggest: the
attacker may use more than one computer to launch the exploit, but
finding an additional computer is much harder than a number of loop
iterations.

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Alexey V. Vissarionov,
av () gremlin ru