full-disclosure - Re: The cat is indeed out of the bag

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Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:57:53 +0200
From: "mokum von Amsterdam" <smokum@...il.com>
To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: The cat is indeed out of the bag

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 4:22 PM, Robert McKay <robert@...ay.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 3:36 AM, <monsieur.aglie@...hmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> from chargen 19/udp by ecopeland
>>
>> 0.
>>
>> The cat is out of the bag. Yes, Halvar Flake figured out the flaw
>> Dan Kaminsky will announce at Black Hat.
>> 1.
>
> I believe I may have found an important optimisation to this attack.
>
> Basically I observed that if you make a DNS request with a very long QNAME
> then nameservers start dropping GLUE records in order to fit the reply into
> the maximum UDP packet size.

Are you not supposed to keep DNS issues under your hat and disclose at BH only?

Cheers
-- 
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> ...  I like simple tools.
This is the list for you then -- there are lots of folk meeting the
description here... --- Nick FitzGerald

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