Re: TCP Sequence Prediction

[vlad () SANDY RU (Vladimir Dubrovin)]

Hello Dean Michael Dorman,

Read MS security issue:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms99-046.asp
"Patch Available to Improve TCP Initial Sequence Number Randomness"

For SP6a patch available at
http://download.microsoft.com/download/winntsrv40/Patch/TCP-SP6/NT4/EN-US/q243835i.exe

29.03.00 22:16, you wrote: TCP Sequence Prediction;

D> Pardon me if this is a trivial question but after nmapping several servers I
D> find that NT boxen usually come up with:

D> TCP Sequence Prediction: Class=trivial time dependency
D>                          Difficulty=6 (Trivial joke)

D> I was wondering how to increase the security here (besides removing NT and
D> installing OpenBSD).

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