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Strange TCP headers
From: pbsarnac () ThoughtWorks com
Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 10:40:19 -0500
I just joined the list, and a quick search of the archives didn't turn this up, but forgive me if this has already been discussed. Starting on May 8 and continuing on through today, my firewall has been picking up malformed TCP packets. The PIX complains about bad header lengths, but the flag combinations that are showing up are extremely strange. The source IP addresses are varied, and the destination IPs are all NAT'd client workstations... not servers. The interesting thing is that a majority of the scans are originating from port 6346, which snort.org informs me is the gnutella server port. I've verified that at least two of the clients that these packets were directed to were running various file-sharing clients. Is this some sort of new scanning tool that runs over the Gnutella network? Anyone have any thoughts? (See attached file: 5-10-02-scans.txt) Thanks! Patrick Sarnacke
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Current thread:
- Strange TCP headers pbsarnac (May 10)
- Re: Strange TCP headers Matt Zimmerman (May 10)
- Re: Strange TCP headers Michel Arboi (May 11)
- RE: Strange TCP headers Benjamin Tomhave (May 11)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: Strange TCP headers Robert Buckley (May 10)
- RE: Strange TCP headers pbsarnac (May 10)
- RE: Strange TCP headers Robert Buckley (May 10)
- RE: Strange TCP headers Dano (May 11)
