[10389] in bugtraq
Re: Link-layer security flaws
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Illuminatus Primus)
Thu Apr 29 14:52:12 1999
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Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 12:50:33 -0400
Reply-To: Illuminatus Primus <vermont@GATE.NET>
From: Illuminatus Primus <vermont@GATE.NET>
X-To: Otel Florian-Daniel <otel@ce.chalmers.se>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
In-Reply-To: <14118.52204.410695.76345@cepc30.ce.chalmers.se>; from Otel
Florian-Daniel on Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 11:34:59AM +0200
PPP's escape character is '~', and any occurences of this character
must be escaped. So, to double the effectiveness of a ping flood,
pings can be filled with a tilde. DoS
+----[ On Wed, Apr 28, at 11:34AM(+0200), Otel Florian-Daniel wrote: ]--------------
| Hello everybody,
|
| I'm trying to gather some data about link-layer protocol specific attacks
| and/or security flaws that can be exploited, e.g. Ethernet is prone to
| sniffing and MAC address spoofing. Most of the stuff I found so far
| revolves around Eth. sniffing (how to use it, how to detect it, so
| on and so forth). But what about other types of attacks and/or
| link-layers (e.g. broadcast-storm based DoS attack? Are Token Ring, FDDI,
| ISDN, ATM flawless ?) Does anybody have some info about this ? Is the
| topic superfluous/too general ?
|
| Many thanks in advance for any reasonable comment and/or pointers,
|
|
| Florian
|
| P.S: Maybe is worth stressing more that I'm looking for vendor and
| protocol independent info and not specific implementation bugs.
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