The vulnerability of the TCP Intercept function and the Snort intrusion detection system of Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) allows attackers to bypass security restrictions and carry out SYN flood attacks.

The vulnerability of the TCP Intercept function and the Snort intrusion detection system of Cisco Firepower Threat Defense’s microprogramming network interface devices is related to resource management errors caused by an incorrect setting of the Maximum Embryonic TCP connections value. Exploitin...

CVE-2005-3774

Cisco PIX 6.3 and 7.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service blocked new connections via spoofed TCP packets that cause the PIX to create embryonic connections that that would not produce a valid connection with the end system, including 1 SYN packets with invalid checksums, which d...