Description:
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NISCC Vulnerability Advisory 236929 - Vulnerability Issues in TCP. The vulnerability described in this advisory affects implementations of the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) that comply with the Internet Engineering Task Force'sā(IETF's) Requests For Comments (RFCs) for TCP, including RFC 793, the original specification, and RFC 1323, TCP Extensions for High Performance. If exploited, the vulnerability could allow an attacker to create a Denial of Service condition against existing TCP connections, resulting in premature session termination. The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is judged to be potentially most affected by this vulnerability.
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