full-disclosure - Re: windows arp dos

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Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 20:04:30 -0400
From: "Kristian Hermansen" <kristian.hermansen@...il.com>
To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: windows arp dos

On 7/25/07, " Knud Erik H?jgaard " <kokanin@...il.com> wrote:
> Tested on xp sp2 and vista., screenshot and .pl attached. There are
> quite a few ways to improve this, for example rate limiting the packet
> sending so as to not over-send, multiple targets and stuff like that.
> However, that means more work and I am lazy.

Did you hook in to find what windows code is producing the majority of
this DoS?  Maybe some unnecessary loop added in Windows XP SP2?  It it
not surprising I guess.  But again, a dumb local attack, unless proxy
ARP is configured...
-- 
Kristian Hermansen

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