FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-14:19.tcp

Steven Chamberlain steven at pyro.eu.org
Tue Sep 16 10:19:58 UTC 2014


Hi,

On 16/09/14 11:14, FreeBSD Security Advisories wrote:
> An attacker who has the ability to spoof IP traffic can tear down a
> TCP connection by sending only 2 packets, if they know both TCP port
> numbers.

This may be a silly question but, if the attacker can spoof IP traffic,
can't the same be done with a single RST packet?

Thanks
Regards,
-- 
Steven Chamberlain
steven at pyro.eu.org


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