Re: Are Fragmentation Attacks Still Used for IDS/IPS Evasion?

Yes but this effectively means that fragmentation
attacks are useless if launched across the 'Net and
when performing a penetration test without local
access.

Also, even internal host systems are usually
segregated from servers and server vlans by a
firewall, so even then, I can't see how fragmentation
attacks would be effective.  The only scenario that I
can think of would be within the same subnet or vlan
where traffic doesn't pass through a firewall.

Please correct me if I am wrong.  Thank you.

--- Harry Hoffman <hhoffman@ip-solutions.net> wrote:

> yep, unfortunately not enough people using host
> based firewalls and alot 
> of attacks happen inside of where the firewall
> protects (i.e. local lan)
>
> seclt yuri wrote:
> > Hi,
> >   I was just reading up on fragmentation attacks
> using
> > fragrouter and fragrouter as a mean of IDS/IPS
> > evasion.  However, since almost all firewalls both
> > commercial and free (iptables for examples) now
> have
> > support for fragment reassembly, are fragmentation
> > attacks still effective?  Thanks.
> >
> >
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