Re: unused bit attack alert

From: Carlos García Argos (MDARGOSat_private)
Date: Tue Feb 22 2000 - 07:49:04 PST

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    LigerTeam wrote:
    
    >   "unused bit attack"
    >
    >  Our Team discovered one problem,
    >  in some case  it's simple,
    > but it could be serious problem of security
    > in the programming related with tcp/ip.
    >
    > In fact, TCP header is 6 kinds  of
    > tcp  flag (SYN, ACK,  PSH, RST, FIN,  URG).
    >
    > problem is the flag value in TCP header
    > approaches to 1byte variable of u_char type.
    > ex)see tcp.h file
    >
    > The flag value Each  one correspond to 1 bit,
    > but it have unused 2 bit.
    >
    > |unused|unused|URG|ACK|PSH|RST|SYN|FIN|
    
    Those 2 unused bit are exactly those QueSO uses to detect an Operating
    System, since there's no specified response to a TCP packet with those
    bit on, it depends on the kind of tcp/ip stack the OS uses. More
    information on http://apostols.org/projectz/queso/
    
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