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Re: DoS attack against TCP services



christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas) writes:

> 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.

And so far we don't have any traces showing packets that look like attacks.

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