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Date:      Thu, 19 May 2005 11:46:17 +0200
From:      Christian Brueffer <chris@unixpages.org>
To:        Andre Oppermann <andre@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: tcp timestamp vulnerability?
Message-ID:  <20050519094617.GB932@unixpages.org>
In-Reply-To: <428C5F89.2E595E02@freebsd.org>
References:  <20050519093736.GA932@unixpages.org> <428C5F89.2E595E02@freebsd.org>

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On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 11:42:33AM +0200, Andre Oppermann wrote:
> Christian Brueffer wrote:
> >=20
> > Hi,
> >=20
> > has anyone taken a look at http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/637934?
>=20
> sys/netinet/tcp_input.c Revision 1.270, Sun Apr 10 05:24:59 2005 UTC
>  (5 weeks, 4 days ago) by ps
>  Branch: MAIN
>  Changes since 1.269: +23 -3 lines
>=20
>  - Tighten up the Timestamp checks to prevent a spoofed segment from
>    setting ts_recent to an arbitrary value, stopping further
>    communication between the two hosts.
>  - If the Echoed Timestamp is greater than the current time,
>    fall back to the non RFC 1323 RTT calculation.
>=20
>  Submitted by:	Raja Mukerji (raja at moselle dot com)
>  Reviewed by:	Noritoshi Demizu, Mohan Srinivasan
>=20

Thanks.  Since I got this from the Heise Newsticker I'll see if I can
get them to update their story.

- Christian

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