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Bugtraq archives for 1st quarter (Jan-Mar) 1995: Re: Blind IP Spoofing Attacks.

Re: Blind IP Spoofing Attacks.

Casper Dik (casperfwi.uva.nl)
Wed, 25 Jan 1995 20:31:03 +0100 

>There are certain files that have predictable file handles...
>As Brent has mentioned several times, if you can predict what
>the target's response will be, you can continue to send packets
>in...

The predictable filehandles are generally only the root
directories of filesystems (newfs w/o a patched fsirand).

Walking up from that directory to more interesting files is
going to be impossible if you can't get any response.

Casper