DocumentCode
1976881
Title
The Vulnerability and Solution of TCP Persistent Timer in Linux
Author
Lu Man-sha
Author_Institution
Coll. of Comput. & Commun. Eng., Changsha Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Changsha, China
fYear
2010
fDate
20-22 Aug. 2010
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
3
Abstract
As a current main end-to-end communication protocol there are a few vulnerabilities in TCP specification. The paper discusses the theory and vulnerability of TCP persist timer and analyzes the implementation of it in Linux. The vulnerability can lead to the infamous DOS attack. In the end of the paper we give two solutions to defense this type of DOS attack through modifying Linux kernel codes or through application implementation.
Keywords
Linux; security of data; transport protocols; DOS attack; Linux kernel codes; TCP; TCP persist timer vulnerability; end-to-end communication protocol; Computer crime; Kernel; Linux; Probes; Receivers; Servers; Sockets;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Internet Technology and Applications, 2010 International Conference on
Conference_Location
Wuhan
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-5142-5
Electronic_ISBN
978-1-4244-5143-2
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ITAPP.2010.5566250
Filename
5566250
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