Firewall-1 Vulnerability: Denial of Service via Long Timeout for Non-SYN Connections

CVE-1999-0770 · LOW Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Firewall-1 sets a long timeout for connections that begin with ACK or other packets except SYN, allowing an attacker to conduct a denial of service via a large number of connection attempts to unresponsive systems.

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