cve/2008/CVE-2008-4609.md

CVE-2008-4609

Description

The TCP implementation in (1) Linux, (2) platforms based on BSD Unix, (3) Microsoft Windows, (4) Cisco products, and probably other operating systems allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (connection queue exhaustion) via multiple vectors that manipulate information in the TCP state table, as demonstrated by sockstress.

POC

Reference

• http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com.au/articles/27154-TCP-is-fundamentally-borked
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujul2012-392727.html
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2009/ms09-048

Github

• https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/cvemon
• https://github.com/CVEDB/PoC-List
• https://github.com/CVEDB/awesome-cve-repo
• https://github.com/Live-Hack-CVE/CVE-2008-4609
• https://github.com/marcelki/sockstress
• https://github.com/mrclki/sockstress