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Date:      Thu, 20 Nov 1997 14:08:47 -0800 (PST)
From:      Jim Shankland <jas@flyingfox.com>
To:        robert@cyrus.watson.org
Cc:        security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: new TCP/IP bug in win95 (fwd)
Message-ID:  <199711202208.OAA29410@biggusdiskus.flyingfox.com>

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Interesting.  So the TCP stack gets into a lively conversation with
itself, since the source-address and port are the same as the
destination address and port.

The obvious fix would appear to be to drop such packets in tcp_input.c
when the TCP state is TCPS_LISTEN.

Jim Shankland
Flying Fox Computer Systems, Inc.



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