[Interest] TCP SYN flood attack.

[Thiago Macieira]

On Tuesday 09 June 2015 19:23:05 Bill Crocker wrote:
> I use QTcpSocket to connect to the server.
> Is there any way I could be using sockets improperly
> such that my app is the source of the SYN flood attack
> perceived by the server.

No, it's impossible for you to be using sockets improperly -- unless you have 
SOCK_RAW code in your application.

The bug is neither in Qt nor in your application. The bug is in the OS itself, 
either in the sender by sending invalid packets or in the receiver by 
erroneously discarding/misinterpreting them. It might also be in the hardware 
or infrastructure, corrupting the packets.

But it can't be above the BSD socket layer.

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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center