From: Adam Flinton 

Geo. wrote:

> "Adam Flinton"  wrote in message
> news:4085953f$1{at}w3.nls.net...
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>>looks humorous.....I wonder who else has known about this & for how
>
> long...
>
> It's been around a while, the new part is that before everyone was assuming
> 4 billion possibilities would mean it takes 20 days to execute, this current
> alert is because someone has found a way to do it with 4 packets. (4
> possibilities and he's got you).
>
> OTOH, there was also a cisco alert today for another snmp exploit, this one
> causes routers to reboot. Again everything cisco appears exploitable (all
> cisco routers) so IMO that's bigger news than the tcp thing.
>
> http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20040420-snmp.shtml
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> Geo.
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>
OK I'll rephrase...how long & who have known it would only take 4 packets....?

I'm left wondering coz of the various gov security types who always smile
oddly when I talk about securing machines....

& as such I'm not sure that the bod who discovered this may have been
the first & whether various NSA/GCHQ/FSB etc types will be a bit
annoyed by this latest revelation.

Adam

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