RFC 5927
ICMP Attacks against TCP, July 2010
- Canonical URL:
- https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5927.txt
- File formats:
- Status:
- INFORMATIONAL
- Author:
- F. Gont
- Stream:
- IETF
- Source:
- tcpm (tsv)
DOI: 10.17487/RFC5927
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Abstract
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.
For the definition of Status, see RFC 2026.
For the definition of Stream, see RFC 4844.