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Re: Cisco VPN Concentrator IKE resource exhaustion DoS Advisory

From: Pavel Kankovsky <peak () argo troja mff cuni cz>
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 15:50:58 +0200 (CEST)

On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Eloy Paris wrote:

The attack against the Internet Key Exchange (IKE) protocol described
in the NTA Monitor advisory exploits the stateless nature of the IKE
version 1 protocol. The goal of such an attack is to deplete the
resources available on a device to negotiate IKE security associations,
and block legitimate users from establishing a new security association.


"Stateless"? Wasn't it supposed to read "stateful"?

--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak  [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
"Resistance is futile. Open your source code and prepare for assimilation."

Current thread:

Cisco VPN Concentrator IKE resource exhaustion DoS Advisory Roy Hills (Jul 26)
- Re: Cisco VPN Concentrator IKE resource exhaustion DoS Advisory Eloy Paris (Jul 29)
  - Re: Cisco VPN Concentrator IKE resource exhaustion DoS Advisory Pavel Kankovsky (Jul 31)