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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.NVD CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.1 (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Novell/SUSE information
Novell Bugzilla entry: 432589, 519126 SUSE Security Advisories:- SUSE-SA:2009:047, published Fri, 02 Oct 2009 10:00:00 +0000