[5727] in bugtraq
an detailed explaination why land attack works?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Feiyi Wang)
Wed Dec 3 01:24:22 1997
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 1997 16:17:21 -0500
Reply-To: Feiyi Wang <fwang2@EOS.NCSU.EDU>
From: Feiyi Wang <fwang2@EOS.NCSU.EDU>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
Hi, there
Can anyone give a detailed explaination about why land attack works on
some TCP/IP stack (say BSD-derived)? Which loop is trapped in by this
"self-connect" request? What's the state transition internally? I can't
figure it out.
A related question is I can't use tcpdump get any output from the victim
machine, once it is received the "self-connect" request, it freeze, not
even a ACK packet. (I am trying it on FreeBSD 2.2.5)
Any information is appreciated.
/Feiyi
