full-disclosure - A new TCP/IP blind data injection technique?

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From: Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu (Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu)
Subject: A new TCP/IP blind data injection technique? 

On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 03:35:25 MST, Michael Gale <michael@...esuperman.com>  said:

> For example the BorderWare Firewall will not accept fragmented packets,
> they are working on a firewall function that when fragmented packets
> arrive. It will save the first piece plus all frags until the final one
> is received. But the packet back together and do a sanity check of some
> sort. Then pass or drop the packet.

So the problem is that the host may re-assemble a fragmented packet with injected
data in it.

And we protect against it by.... you got it.. having the firewall re-assemble the
fragmented packet with injected data and then handing the re-assembled full
packet (with injected data) to the host.

Whoops.
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