Description
IBM AIX 4.3.3 and AIX 5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption or crash) via a flood of malformed TCP packets without any flags set, which prevents AIX from releasing the associated memory buffers.
References
- aix-tcp-flood-dos(10326) vdb-entry
- IY31641 vendor-advisory
- 20021009 Flood ACK packets cause AIX DoS mailing-list
- VU#102345 third-party-advisory
- 5925 vdb-entry