CVE
- Id
- 4048
- CVE No.
- CVE-2001-1244
- Status
- Candidate
- Description
- Multiple TCP implementations could allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (bandwidth and CPU exhaustion) by setting the maximum segment size (MSS) to a very small number and requesting large amounts of data, which generates more packets with less TCP-level data that amplify network traffic and consume more server CPU to process.
- Phase
- Proposed (20020502)
- Votes
- ACCEPT(3) Cole, Frech, Green | NOOP(3) Cox, Foat, Wall
- Comments