Re: TCP Portals: The Handshake's a Lie!

[Martin Roesch <roesch () sourcefire com>]

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 3:11 PM, CunningPike <cunningpike () gmail com> wrote:

> I haven't seen much commentary on this:
> http://www.breakingpointsystems.com/community/blog/tcp-portals-the-three-way-handshake-is-a-lie.
> Do any of the snort sigs or preprocessors rely on a SYN/ACK packet for state
> and/or flow?
Hi there,

Stream5 handles the TCP handshaking for the system, I don't think that
anything else in the codebase cares about the TWH.  I'd have to read the
code and maybe turn on the debug statements to understand the full effect, I
know at least some of the state handling handles the SYNs and ACKs
separately but there could be issues with things like midstream pickups and
so on.

Marty

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