Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 21:23:49 +1000 (EST) From: Darren Reed <darrenr@cyber.com.au> To: dg@root.com Cc: security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: TCP RST Handling in 2.2 (fwd) Message-ID: <199706031123.VAA03044@plum.cyber.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199706031120.EAA06181@implode.root.com> from "David Greenman" at Jun 3, 97 04:20:16 am
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In some mail I received from David Greenman, sie wrote
>
> >! if (tiflags&TH_RST) {
> >
> >! if ((ti->ti_seq != tp->rcv_nxt) ||
> >! (ti->ti_ack && ((SEQ_LEQ(ti->ti_ack, tp->iss) ||
> >! SEQ_GT(ti->ti_ack, tp->snd_max)))))
> >! goto drop;
>
> This looks highly bogus to me. What happens if the server crashes and comes
> back up? The code as written above appears to drop all attempts by the server
> to issue an RST...right?
No. An RST must be issued for a packet that it has received. These usually
come out of tcp_respond() which uses the original packet (with the SEQ & ACK
numbers).
Or is there a situation which I'm missing here ?
Darren
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