Subject: Re: tcp vulnerability? haven't seen anything on it here...

From: Florian Weimer <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 15:58:40 +0200

jamal <[email-masked]> writes:

> OTOH, long lived BGP sessions are affected assuming you are going across
> hostile path to your peer.

Hostile path is not required.  Not at all. 8-(

And it's not BGP specific.  You might be able to use this attack to
split IRC networks, too.  However, it's a bit harder in this case
because IRC servers usually use more random source ports.

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