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[tcpm] [Technical Errata Reported] RFC5961 (4772)

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The following errata report has been submitted for RFC5961,
"Improving TCP's Robustness to Blind In-Window Attacks".

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You may review the report below and at:
http://www.rfc-editor.org/errata_search.php?rfc=5961&eid=4772

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Type: Technical
Reported by: Stéphane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer+ietf@nic.fr>

Section: 7

Original Text
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[The entire section]

Corrected Text
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No suggested text because it requires a much more serious analysis. 
May be adding that the rate-limit counter SHOULD be per-connection, 
in the spirit of RFC 6528?

Notes
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It appears the section does not specify that the counter for ACK throttling SHOULD be per-connection. In Linux, it is apparently global, which allowed its use as a side channel enabling nasty attacks (CVE-2016-5696 and the paper "Off-Path TCP Exploits: Global Rate Limit Considered Dangerous" <http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~zhiyunq/pub/sec16_TCP_pure_offpath.pdf>)

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RFC5961 (draft-ietf-tcpm-tcpsecure-13)
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Title               : Improving TCP's Robustness to Blind In-Window Attacks
Publication Date    : August 2010
Author(s)           : A. Ramaiah, R. Stewart, M. Dalal
Category            : PROPOSED STANDARD
Source              : TCP Maintenance and Minor Extensions
Area                : Transport
Stream              : IETF
Verifying Party     : IESG

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