The Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (bandwidth consumption) by sending ACK messages for packets that have not yet been received (optimistic ACKs), which can cause the sender to increase its transmission rate until it fills available bandwidth.
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2005-11-18T23:00:00
Updated: 2024-08-07T23:17:23.421Z
Reserved: 2005-11-18T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2005-3675
Vulnrichment
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2005-11-18T23:03:00.000
Modified: 2024-11-21T00:02:24.800
Link: CVE-2005-3675
Redhat
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