Re: Terminate message a security threat?

I agree. I don't see much to be added for Terminate
Message. Spoofing is a different issue. 


SG

--- Jim Pinkerton <[email protected]> wrote:

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> To date the security ID doesn't discuss the
> Terminate Message. It was suggested to me by
> Mallikarjun as part of his detailed review that
> since all other messages are discussed, shouldn't
> Terminate be? 
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> In thinking this through, I don't believe this
> represents any new attacks. If the Remote Peer is
> sending you a Terminate Message, then that ½ of the
> Stream is terminated. So he just clobbered himself,
> but hasn't been able to affect any other connections
> - thus this is not a security issue. If a third
> party is able to inject a Terminate Message into the
> data stream, then it is a spoofing attack. The
> spoofing attack and mitigations are already
> discussed. So I think at best the Terminate Message
> could be added as an example of a spoofing attack,
> but honestly there are a ton of things the spoofer
> could do, so I'm not sure I'd revise the draft just
> to add another example.
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> Does anyone see a hole in my reasoning?
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> Jim
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