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Re: Kiss-o'-death packets?
From: Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com>
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 06:08:10 -0400 (EDT)
On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Peter Galbavy wrote:
Erm, I can see a huge DoS hole waiting to happen to any protocol that doesn't in turn implement some sort of authentication of the server. The more protocols you allow to do this, the more potential for DoS of important (possibly) client information.
Uhm, you are also aware that if the attacker can spoof the kiss-o'-death packets; the same attacker could spoof all sorts of other packets including the time protocol packets to change the clock on your computer.
Current thread:
- Re: Security v. Privacy (was Re: Is there anything that actually gets users to fix their computers?), (continued)
- Re: Security v. Privacy (was Re: Is there anything that actually gets users to fix their computers?) Matthew Sullivan (Oct 05)
- Re: Security v. Privacy (was Re: Is there anything that actually gets users to fix their computers?) Sean Donelan (Oct 05)
- Re: Security v. Privacy (was Re: Is there anything that actually gets users to fix their computers?) Matthew Sullivan (Oct 05)
- Re: Is there anything that actually gets users to fix their computers? Robert Boyle (Oct 05)
- Re: Is there anything that actually gets users to fix their computers? Valdis . Kletnieks (Oct 05)
- Kiss-o'-death packets? Sean Donelan (Oct 05)
- Re: Kiss-o'-death packets? Paul (Oct 05)
- Re: Kiss-o'-death packets? Valdis . Kletnieks (Oct 06)
- Re: Kiss-o'-death packets? Sean Donelan (Oct 06)
- Re: Kiss-o'-death packets? Peter Galbavy (Oct 06)
- Re: Kiss-o'-death packets? Sean Donelan (Oct 06)
- Re: Kiss-o'-death packets? Peter Galbavy (Oct 06)
- Re: Kiss-o'-death packets? E.B. Dreger (Oct 06)
- Re: Kiss-o'-death packets? Peter Galbavy (Oct 06)
- Re: Kiss-o'-death packets? E.B. Dreger (Oct 06)
- Re: Is there anything that actually gets users to fix their computers? Suresh Ramasubramanian (Oct 05)
- Re: Is there anything that actually gets users to fix their computers? Sean Donelan (Oct 03)
- Re: Is there anything that actually gets users to fix their computers? Erik-Jan Bos (Oct 03)
- Re: Is there anything that actually gets users to fix their computers? Daniel Karrenberg (Oct 03)
- RE: Is there anything that actually gets users to fix their computers? John Renwick (Oct 03)
- Re: Is there anything that actually gets users to fix their computers? Jack Bates (Oct 03)