CVE-2002-0782

Novell BorderManager 3.5 with PAT Port-Address Translate enabled allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by filling the connection table with a large number of connection requests to hosts that do not have a specific route, which may be forwarded to the public interface...

Translate:f summary, history and thoughts

Because Microsoft went the way of HIDING the actual mechanism of Translate:f from all of us original KB article is gone and new Security Bulletin is playing nasty game of downplaying the problem, i have decided to write follow up with sufficient information. HOW IT WORKS -------------------------...