Security Advisory

CVE-2005-3675

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2005-11-18 23:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-07 23:17:23

Assigner mitre

CVSS score not scored

State PUBLISHED

Description

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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