CERT has issued a vulnerability email.
They seem to think it's a little more serious....
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Technical Cyber Security Alert TA04-111A archive
Vulnerabilities in TCP
Original release date: April 20, 2004
Last revised: --
Source: US-CERT
Systems Affected
* Systems that rely on persistent TCP connections, for example
routers supporting BGP
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Your info may run over a IPSEC link but if the border routers of your ISP go
down, your still stuffed.
regards
Thing
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Subject: Re: Major TCP Vulnerability
On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 at 02:49:48PM -0400, Thomas Sj?gren wrote:
> Since the article is for subscribers only, this is a "wild" guess:
> http://www.uniras.gov.uk/vuls/2004/236929/index.htm
This article isn't anything I am going to loose sleep over. Any mission
critical long term TCP connections over an untrusted network (The
Internet) should already be using IPSec.
As for non-mission critical connections, the two parties will just reconnect
at a later time.
Also, unless the attackers know the source port of the client side of the
TCP connection, this attack is useless. The only way for them to get the
client/source port would be to:
A) Have access to the datastream (if this is the case, you have more to
worry about than them resetting your connection).
B) Have login access to either machine and then run netstat (or a
similar) utility which will tell them the information.
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