Re: CodeRed Observations.

From: Andrew Bates (abatesat_private)
Date: Sun Mar 16 2003 - 13:11:28 PST

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    Some ideas:
    
    --snip--
    
    > of all, if it actually works like this (and IE works like stated in article Rob
    > posted), than that means that Windows' TCP/IP *STACK* is really broken.
    > Basically, this has nothing to do with IIS because IIS, as any other service,
    > just binds socket and waits for incoming data. TCP/IP stack is the one that
    > processes all incoming/outgoing traffic and delivers data to the application.
    > Remember that TCP packets are on the transport layer (or host level if you
    > prefer protocol relationships) and that actual HTTP data belongs to the
    > application layer (the OSI model). So, TCP/IP stack on the machine receiving
    > packet like that should send back RST - no way that packet should be processed
    > and delivered to application (if that is the case spoofing becomes extremely
    > easy).
    >
    
    --snip--
    
    I'm no NT expert, but couldn't IIS be using raw sockets?  If so, this would circumvent the OS IP
    stack and IIS could choose not to follow a standard TCP three way handshake.
    
    Andrew
    
    
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