RFC 5927

"ICMP Attacks against TCP", July 2010

Canonical URL:

http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5927.txt
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Status:

INFORMATIONAL

Author:

F. Gont

Stream:

IETF

Source:

tcpm (tsv)

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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 Stream, see RFC 4844.