CVE-2008-4609 (GCVE-0-2008-4609)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-10-20 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 10:24
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Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2008-10-02 00:00
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