A Simple Active Attack Against TCP
Author
Laurent Joncheray
Entry type
techreport
Abstract
This paper describes an active attack against the Transport Control
Protocol (TCP) which allows a cracker to redirect the TCP stream through
his machine thereby permitting him to bypass the protection offered by such
a system as a one-time password[SKEY] or by ticketing authentication
[Kerberos]. The TCP COnnection is vulnerable to anyone with a TCP packet
sniffer and generator locates on the path followed by the connection. Some
schemes to detect this attack are presented as well as some methods of
prevention and some interesting details of the TCP protocol behaviors.
Date
1995 – April – 24
Address
FX: (313) 747-3185
Institution
Merit Network, Inc.
Key alpha
Joncheray
Publication Date
2001-01-01