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TCP denial-of-service attacks against long lived connections

Description:

NISCC / UNIRAS has published an advisory that re-visits the long discussed spoofed TCP RST denial-of-service vulnerability. This new look emphasizes the fact that for some applications such attacks are practically feasible.

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portaudit: TCP denial-of-service attacks against long lived connections

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Oliver Eikemeier <eik@FreeBSD.org>