[security-alerts] FW: Revised draft on ICMP attacks

["Kazennov, Vladimir" <Vladimir.Kazennov@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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> From: Fernando Gont [mailto:fernando@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 6:51 PM
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> Subject: Revised draft on ICMP attacks
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> Folks,
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> I have published a revision of my draft on ICMP attacks 
> against TCP. Some 
> new stuff you may find interesting is a corner case for the 
> attack against 
> the PMTUD mechanism, that could allow an attacker to freeze TCP 
> connections, even those secured by means of IPSec. You can 
> find that stuff 
> in Section 7.1 of the draft. This revision also addresses some recent 
> discussions at the TCPM WG mailing-list.
> 
> The draft is available at 
> http://www.gont.com.ar/drafts/draft-gont-tcpm-icmp-attacks-05.txt 
> (http://www.gont.com.ar/draft/icmp-attacks-against-tcp.html)
> 
> Feedback is welcome, noise should go to /dev/null.
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> Fernando Gont
> e-mail: fernando@xxxxxxxxxxx || fgont@xxxxxxx
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