CVE-2008-4609

Description

The TCP implementation in (1) Linux, (2) platforms based on BSD Unix, (3) Microsoft Windows, (4) Cisco products, and probably other operating systems allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (connection queue exhaustion) via multiple vectors that manipulate information in the TCP state table, as demonstrated by sockstress.

Related CPE's

References

[dailydave] 20081002 TCP Resource Exhaustion DoS Attack Speculation

http://www.outpost24.com/news/news-2008-10-02.html

20081017 Cisco Response to Outpost24 TCP State Table Manipulation Denial of Service Vulnerabilities

http://blog.robertlee.name/2008/10/conjecture-speculation.html

https://www.cert.fi/haavoittuvuudet/2008/tcp-vulnerabilities.html

http://insecure.org/stf/tcp-dos-attack-explained.html

http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com.au/articles/27154-TCP-is-fundamentally-borked

20090908 TCP State Manipulation Denial of Service Vulnerabilities in Multiple Cisco Products

http://www.cpni.gov.uk/Docs/tn-03-09-security-assessment-TCP.pdf

TA09-251A

HPSBMI02473

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujul2012-392727.html

MDVSA-2013:150

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6340

MS09-048

CvssV3 impact

CvssV2 impact