Netty epoll transport denial of service via RST on half-closed TCP connection

Summary Netty's epoll transport fails to detect and close TCP connections that receive a RST after being half-closed, leading to stale channels that are never cleaned up and, in some code paths, a 100% CPU busy-loop in the event loop thread. Affected versions All versions of 4.2.x...

EUVD-2005-4879

Malware in sbrugna...

EUVD-2012-0414

Malware in sbrugna...

CVE-2012-0378

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances ASA 5500 series devices with software 8.0 through 8.4 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service connection limit exceeded by triggering a large number of stale connections that result in an incorrect value for an MPF connection count, aka Bug ID...

CVE-2005-4888

NWFTPD.nlm before 5.06.04 in the FTP server in Novell NetWare allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service excessive stale connections by establishing many FTP sessions, which persist in the Not-Logged-In state after each session is completed...

PT-2012-2532 · Cisco · Cisco Asa

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances ASA 5500 series devices versions 8.0 through 8.4 Description: The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by triggering a large number of stale connections, resulting in an incorrect value...

CVE-2012-0378: Undefined Security Weakness

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances ASA 5500 series devices with software 8.0 through 8.4 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service connection limit exceeded by triggering a large number of stale connections that result in an incorrect value for an MPF connection count, aka Bug ID...

CVE-2005-4888: Undefined Security Weakness

NWFTPD.nlm before 5.06.04 in the FTP server in Novell NetWare allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service excessive stale connections by establishing many FTP sessions, which persist in the Not-Logged-In state after each session is completed...