Re: Application-level Attacks

[Devdas Bhagat <devdas () dvb homelinux org>]

On 09/02/05 00:54 +0100, gmx wrote:
> Hello
>
> Well... i dont think that application level atacks have something to
> do with ports... simply because i think, ports are at tcp-layer, and
> if you talk about application, you talk about layer 7... if i hear
> application layer and attacks, all i can imagine is virii...

No. The biggest attacks which I can recall not beingat the application
layer were the ATH0+++ which disconnected dialup users, and the ping of
death which exploited a hole in the Windows network stack.

> Well, i dont know any other atack for layer 7 than malicious code.

These atacks are all malicious code, and include worms, viruses,
trojans, and are rather applicable across operating systems and
applications.

> Means, all you can do at this layer, is to use an antivirus software,
> imho.
> Please correct me if i could be worng.

Or run secure code in the first place. Patching helps as well.

Devdas Bhagat
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