Re: Land Attack

[Ashley Thomas <athomas () cc gatech edu>]

I see 2 rules -

dos.rules:
alert tcp $EXTERNAL_NET any -> $HOME_NET any (msg:"DOS Land attack"; 
id:3868; seq: 3868;
flags:S; reference:cve,CVE-1999-0016; classtype:attempted-dos; sid:269; 
rev:2;)

bad-traffic.rules:
alert ip any any -> any any (msg:"BAD TRAFFIC same SRC/DST"; sameip;
reference:cve,CVE-1999-0016; 
reference:url,www.cert.org/advisories/CA-1997-28.html; 
classtype:bad-unknown; sid:527; rev:3;)

I was referring to the second one. Is it not Land Attack ?

The reference, CVE-1999-0016, is the same for both and classifies it as 
LAND.

So I was wondering if the packet has SRC and DST IP same, it is LAND 
attack or
it has to be a SYN packet with same SRC/DST ports also.

thanks a lot
ashley


Phil Wood wrote:

> The rule in snort looks for a SYN packet with IP ident == tcp sequence (0xF1C)
> which is based on the source for land.c.  You would have to peruse the hacker
> source sites for that.
>
> There is no primitive to look for source port equal to destination port.
> You could write one.  %^)
>
> On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 02:31:51AM -0500, Ashley Thomas wrote:
>  
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > What is the signature for a Land attack ?
> >
> > All the documentation i could get hold mentioned 'Land Attack' to be a
> > TCP Syn packet with same Src IP/port and Dest IP/port.
> >
> > http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-1997-28.html
> > http://www.insecure.org/sploits/land.ip.DOS.html
> > http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/physnet/security/vulnerability/land.html
> >
> > Then how do we classify the DoS attack packet which has same Src IP and 
> > Dest IP.
> > ( lets say it is not a TCP/UDP packet -> so port is not considered )
> >
> > Snort signature for Land also has considered only the IP address and not 
> > port.
> >
> > thanks
> > ashley
> >
> > --
> > Ashley Thomas
> > Research scientist
> > College of Computing
> > Georgia Tech.
> >
> >
> >
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Ashley Thomas
Research scientist
College of Computing
Georgia Tech.




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