netdev - Re: TCP sequence number inference attack on Linux

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Message-ID: <CALvgte-=v=bRnQ2HPDxyqxBOjD6DXp_BUySW6Hm7h+81M+RYMA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 21 Dec 2012 14:13:12 -0500
From:	Zhiyun Qian <zhiyunq@...ch.edu>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: TCP sequence number inference attack on Linux

That seems like a good idea. I am not sure how it is implemented
though. Is it a new feature of Linux? Would you mind sending some
pointers for this?

Thanks.
-Zhiyun

On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-12-21 at 10:31 -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>
>> I believe RFC 5961 was implemented in recent linux versions.
>>
>> Is the described vulnerability still present ?
>>
>
> By the way, I believe Chrome browser uses private network namespaces,
> and statistics are per network namespace, so it should be safe.
>
>
>
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