5 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
0.003 Low
EPSS
Percentile
65.5%
TCP, when using a large Window Size, makes it easier for remote attackers
to guess sequence numbers and cause a denial of service (connection loss)
to persistent TCP connections by repeatedly injecting a TCP RST packet,
especially in protocols that use long-lived connections, such as BGP.
Author | Note |
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kees | this does not really affect the Linux TCP stack in any meaningful way. http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/4/21/125 http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/6/25/196 |