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RFC 5927
Title: ICMP Attacks against TCP
Author: F. Gont
Status: Informational
Stream: IETF
Date: July 2010
Mailbox: fernando@gont.com.ar
Pages: 36
Characters: 87744
Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso: None
I-D Tag: draft-ietf-tcpm-icmp-attacks-12.txt
URL: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5927.txt
This document discusses the use of the Internet Control Message
Protocol (ICMP) to perform a variety of attacks against the
Transmission Control Protocol (TCP). Additionally, this document
describes a number of widely implemented modifications to TCP's
handling of ICMP error messages that help to mitigate these issues.
This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is
published for informational purposes.
This document is a product of the TCP Maintenance and Minor Extensions Working Group of the IETF.
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