Cisco IOS TCP Implementation Denial of Service Vulnerability

CVE-2013-5469 · HIGH Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

The TCP implementation in Cisco IOS does not properly implement the transitions from the ESTABLISHED state to the CLOSED state, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (flood of ACK packets) via a crafted series of ACK and FIN packets, aka Bug ID CSCtz14399.

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