Title
Data Enriched SACK: A Novel Acknowledgement Generation Scheme for Secure SCTP
Abstract
The Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) is inherently vulnerable to optimistic Selective Acknowledgement (SACK) spoofing. We highlight a threat scenario in which this vulnerability is exploited for the generation of sustained and powerful Denial-of-Service attack flood over the Internet. We identify and analyze a fundamental design limitation in SCTP that leads to the above mentioned vulnerability and propose a novel acknowledgement generation scheme, called Data Enriched SACK (DESACK), to make SCTP robust against optimistic SACK spoofing. We present the design and implementation details of DESACK. The proposed scheme is experimentally implemented, tested and integrated into the SCTP framework in the Linux Kernel. We also provide real-world experimental results to demonstrate the feasibility and effectiveness of DESACK on a highly loaded multi-hop production network.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/LCOMM.2014.2367109
Communications Letters, IEEE  
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Internet,Linux,computer network security,operating system kernels,protocols,Internet,Linux kernel,acknowledgement generation scheme,data enriched SACK,denial-of-service attack,multihop production network,selective acknowledgement,stream control transmission protocol,DESACK,Data Enriched SACK,Optimistic SACK Spoofing,SCTP,Stream Control Transmission Protocol,Stream control transmission protocol,data enriched SACK,optimistic SACK spoofing
Journal
18
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
12
1089-7798
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
V. Anil Kumar111.36
Debabrata Das26123.61