Re: DoS attack against TCP services

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

On Feb 7, 12:53pm, 6bone%6bone.informatik.uni-leipzig.de@localhost (6bone%6bone.informatik.uni-leipzig.de@localhost) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: DoS attack against TCP services

| On Fri, 6 Feb 2015, Robert Elz wrote:
| 
| > What's more, it seems peculiar to your system, as no-one else seems to
| > be reporting similar problems.   So I'd be investigating how the timers
| > are working (or are not working) in the kernel - perhaps even try
| > selecting a different timer.
| 
| 
| Just to make sure. If the bug described here be the cause? If the problem 
| is already fixed?
| 
|   http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2014-7250

I don't know; I will take look, but in this case the connections are
initiated by the inflicted system.

christos