EUVD-2008-2118

Malware in sbrugna...

Enable TCP-SYN Cookie Protection

TCP-SYN cookie protection mitigates the impact of SYN flood attacks on the system. When an attacker launches a SYN flood attack, the half-open connection queue in the kernel is quickly exhausted to block valid connections. If SYN cookie is enabled, the system can still accept valid connections ev...

Security feature bypass

in BIG-IP versions 15.1.0-15.1.0.4, 15.0.0-15.0.1.3, 14.1.0-14.1.2.6, 13.1.0-13.1.3.4, 12.1.0-12.1.5.1, and 11.6.1-11.6.5.2, Syn flood causes large number of MCPD context messages destined to secondary blades consuming memory leading to MCPD failure. This issue affects only VIPRION hosts with two...