Packet Sanity (CVE-1999-0193; CVE-1999-0675; CVE-2000-0221; CVE-2002-1071; CVE-2003-1029; CVE-2004-0247; CVE-2004-1109; CVE-2007-1804; CVE-2007-3026; CVE-2008-7127; CVE-2010-1185; CVE-2011-0975; CVE-2012-6638; CVE-2014-3000)

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Security Best Practice: Familiarize Yourself with the Packet Sanity Protection

The Packet Sanity protection performs several Layer 3 and Layer 4 sanity checks. These include verifying packet size, UDP and TCP header lengths, dropping IP options and verifying the TCP flags.Numerous types of attacks may be hidden in fragmented packets...