Security Advisory

CVE-2008-4609

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2008-10-20 17:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 10:24:20
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

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.