[LINK] It pays to read CERT advisories

[Roger Clarke]

At *last*, a CERT author with a sense of humour:

From:
		        AL-2004.12 -- AusCERT ALERT
                         Vulnerability Issues in TCP
                     NISCC Vulnerability Advisory 236929
                                21 April 2004

"If exploited, the vulnerability could allow an attacker to create a Denial
of Service condition against existing TCP connections, resulting in
premature session termination. The resulting session termination will
affect the application layer, ...".

-- 
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