Research on Off-Path Exploits of Network Protocols

Falin Hou, Xiao Yu, Kefan Qiu, Junli Liu, Zhiwei Shi, Yuanzhang Li

Abstract: With the rapid development of the Internet industry, from a global perspective, the risks brought by network security are becoming increasingly prominent, and continue to penetrate into political, economic, cultural, social, national defense and other fields. Network security has attracted more and more researchers’ attention. This paper first analyzes the two types of network protcol attacks, reviews the development history and current status of off-path attacks, analyzes and summarizes the domestic and foreign literature from the morris TCP injection attacks inwa 1985 to the present. Finally, relying upon the reviewed work, we prospect the future development direction and research focus of off-path attacks.