Re: Covert Channels

From: Rohit Sharma (rsharmaat_private)
Date: Thu Oct 17 2002 - 07:29:06 PDT

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    see the archives section in the libnet list, you will find lots of link
    there.
    
    also check
    
    http://packetstorm.linuxsecurity.com/papers/unix/tcp.acknowledgement.txt
    
    On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 03:38, Jeremy Junginger wrote:
    > Has anyone had success in creating a program that uses IP/TCP/UDP/ICMP
    > header information to transmit encoded messages from one host to
    > another?  Shortly after reading
    > http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue2_5/rowland/ I was very tempted to
    > put together a proof-of-concept program to demonstrate the use of covert
    > channels (and more imporantly, how they could slip right by the IDS)
    > with the tools I had on hand.  I ended up using nemesis (Thank you Mr.
    > Grimes), tcpdump, and a little Perl script to kind of piece a tool
    > together that would transmit encoded (I use that term loosely) ASCII
    > data within the IP id field of the IP header.  It works okay until you
    > go through a NAT device that decides to change the IPID :)  I wondered
    > if anyone else has attempted to create a similar covert channel, and if
    > it is even useful when you can potentially encrypt/tunnel many chat
    > applications over a 3DES tunnel on basically any port in order to
    > subvert a security policy.
    >
    > A penny for your thoughts...
    >
    > Jeremy
    >
    >
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