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Cisco Security Advisory for all you Cisco Jockies out there.

Posted: April 22, 2004, 9:49 am
by Arborealus
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/ci ... ml#summary
A vulnerability in the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) specification (RFC793) has been discovered by an external researcher. The successful exploitation enables an adversary to reset any established TCP connection in a much shorter time than was previously discussed publicly. Depending on the application, the connection may get automatically re-established. In other cases, a user will have to repeat the action (for example, open a new Telnet or SSH session). Depending upon the attacked protocol, a successful attack may have additional consequences beyond terminated connection which must be considered. This attack vector is only applicable to the sessions which are terminating on a device (such as a router, switch, or computer), and not to the sessions that are only passing through the device (for example, transit traffic that is being routed by a router). In addition, the attack vector does not directly compromise data integrity or confidentiality.

All Cisco products which contain a TCP stack are susceptible to this vulnerability
Heads up this is very easily exploitable...