Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 04:17:42 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Philippe Regnauld <regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk> Cc: Marius Bendiksen <Marius.Bendiksen@scancall.no>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: UDP port 31337 Message-ID: <199808131017.EAA09424@lariat.lariat.org> In-Reply-To: <19980813121846.33945@deepo.prosa.dk> References: <199808121812.MAA01183@lariat.lariat.org> <199808121735.LAA00738@lariat.lariat.org> <3.0.5.32.19980812192128.0097a2a0@mail.scancall.no> <199808121700.LAA00346@lariat.lariat.org> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980812225354.21008E-100000@aniwa.sky> <3.0.5.32.19980812112915.0092ead0@mail.scancall.no> <3.0.5.32.19980812193700.0092f220@mail.scancall.no> <199808121812.MAA01183@lariat.lariat.org>
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At 12:18 PM 8/13/98 +0200, Philippe Regnauld wrote: >Brett Glass writes: >> If no one was listening, it wouldn't be a problem. >> >> Only an attacker who INTENDED to invade your systems would be subject to >> crashes due to the response. And would deserve it. > > ... provided he hadn't spoofed his source address... > > i.e.: you might be retaliating against some poor guy who didn't ask > for it. (I could for example spoof a source address of 206.100.185.2). You're clearly not listening. Again, the counterattack would do nothing unless it arrived at the system which was actually being used to conduct the attack. --Brett Glass To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe security" in the body of the message
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