[771] in bugtraq
Re: Blind IP Spoofing Attacks.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Casper Dik)
Wed Jan 25 16:57:59 1995
To: z056716@uprc.com (LaCoursiere J. D. (Jeff))
Cc: bugtraq@fc.net, newsham@aloha.net
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 25 Jan 1995 09:04:36 +0600."
<9501251504.AA26410@cygnus.uprc.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 1995 20:31:03 +0100
From: Casper Dik <casper@fwi.uva.nl>
>There are certain files that have predictable file handles...
>As Brent has mentioned several times, if you can predict what
>the target's response will be, you can continue to send packets
>in...
The predictable filehandles are generally only the root
directories of filesystems (newfs w/o a patched fsirand).
Walking up from that directory to more interesting files is
going to be impossible if you can't get any response.
Casper
