TCP Options Field Denial of Service Vulnerability

TCP Options Field Denial of Service Vulnerability

CVE-2014-1811 · MEDIUM Severity

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

The TCP implementation in Microsoft Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2, and Windows RT Gold and 8.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (non-paged pool memory consumption and system hang) via malformed data in the Options field of a TCP header, aka "TCP Denial of Service Vulnerability."

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