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F5 Networks: K4743 (CVE-2005-0356): Inadequate validation for TCP segments CVE-2005-0356

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F5 Networks: K4743 (CVE-2005-0356): Inadequate validation for TCP segments CVE-2005-0356

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
05/31/2005
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/16/2017
Modified
10/13/2017

Description

Multiple TCP implementations with Protection Against Wrapped Sequence Numbers (PAWS) with the timestamps option enabled allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (connection loss) via a spoofed packet with a large timer value, which causes the host to discard later packets because they appear to be too old.

Solution(s)

  • f5-big-ip-upgrade-latest

References

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