Subject: kern/30877: NetBSD is vulnerable to "Undead Attack"
To: None <kern-bug-people@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,>
From: Matthias Scheler <tron@NetBSD.org>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 07/30/2005 16:17:00
>Number: 30877
>Category: kern
>Synopsis: NetBSD is vulnerable to "Undead Attack"
>Confidential: yes
>Severity: serious
>Priority: high
>Responsible: kern-bug-people
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Sat Jul 30 16:17:00 +0000 2005
>Originator: Matthias Scheler
>Release: NetBSD 3.0_BETA
>Organization:
Matthias Scheler http://scheler.de/~matthias/
>Environment:
System: NetBSD excalibur.tents.whatthehack.org 3.0_BETA NetBSD 3.0_BETA (EXCALIBUR) #0: Wed Jul 27 10:04:33 BST 2005 tron@excalibur.zhadum.de:/src/sys/compile/EXCALIBUR macppc
Architecture: powerpc
Machine: macppc
>Description:
NetBSD's TCP implementation is vulnerable against the "Undead Attack",
see here for more information.
http://wiki.whatthehack.org/index.php/Undead_Attack
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13215
The problem can be reproduced under at least NetBSD-sparc 2.0.2 and
NetBSD-macpc 3.0_BETA.
>How-To-Repeat:
Attack a NetBSD system with the "Undead Attack".
>Fix:
None provided.