CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-4609
7.1 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-10-20
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.1 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-16
Description
The TCP implementation in (1) Linux, (2) platforms based on BSD Unix, (3) Microsoft Windows, (4) Cisco products, and probably other operating systems allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (connection queue exhaustion) via multiple vectors that manipulate information in the TCP state table, as demonstrated by sockstress.
Affected configurations
• bsd bsd
• bsd bsd 4.1
• bsd bsd 4.2
• bsd bsd 4.3
• bsd bsd 4.4
• bsdi bsd os
• bsdi bsd os 1.1
• bsdi bsd os 2.0
• bsdi bsd os 2.0.1
• bsdi bsd os 2.1
• bsdi bsd os 3.0
• bsdi bsd os 3.1
• bsdi bsd os 3.2
• bsdi bsd os 4.0
• bsdi bsd os 4.0.1
• bsdi bsd os 4.1
• bsdi bsd os 4.2
• cisco ios
• cisco ios 4.1
• cisco ios 4.1.1
• cisco ios 4.1.2
• cisco ios 8.2
• cisco ios 8.3
• cisco ios 9.0
• cisco ios 9.1
• cisco ios 9.14
• cisco ios 10.0
• cisco ios 10.3
• cisco ios 10.3\(3.3\)
• cisco ios 10.3\(3.4\)
• cisco ios 10.3\(4.2\)
• cisco ios 10.3\(4.3\)
• cisco ios 10.3\(16\)
• cisco ios 10.3\(19a\)
• cisco ios 11
• cisco ios 11.0
• cisco ios 11.0\(12\)
• cisco ios 11.0\(17\)
• cisco ios 11.0\(17\)bt
• cisco ios 11.0\(18\)
• cisco ios 11.0\(20.3\)
• cisco ios 11.0\(22a\)
• cisco ios 11.0\(22b\)
• cisco ios 11.0\(x\)
• cisco ios 11.0.12\(a\)bt
• cisco ios 11.1
• cisco ios 11.1\(5\)
• cisco ios 11.1\(7\)
• cisco ios 11.1\(7\)aa
• cisco ios 11.1\(7\)ca
• cisco ios 11.1\(9\)ia
• cisco ios 11.1\(11\)
• cisco ios 11.1\(12\)
• cisco ios 11.1\(13\)
• cisco ios 11.1\(13\)aa
• cisco ios 11.1\(13\)ca
• cisco ios 11.1\(13\)ia
• cisco ios 11.1\(14\)
• cisco ios 11.1\(15\)
• cisco ios 11.1\(15\)aa
… and 1975 more
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://blog.robertlee.name/2008/10/conjecture-speculation.html Broken Link
- http://insecure.org/stf/tcp-dos-attack-explained.html Broken Link
- http://lists.immunitysec.com/pipermail/dailydave/2008-October/005360.html Broken Link
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=125856010926699&w=2 Third Party Advisory
- http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com.au/articles/27154-TCP-is-fundamentally-borked Broken Link
- http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/products_security_advisory09186a0080af511d.shtml Broken Link
- http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/products_security_response09186a0080a15120.html Broken Link
- http://www.cpni.gov.uk/Docs/tn-03-09-security-assessment-TCP.pdf Broken Link
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:150 Broken Link
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujul2012-392727.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.outpost24.com/news/news-2008-10-02.html Broken Link
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-251A.html Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2009/ms09-048 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6340 Broken Link
- https://www.cert.fi/haavoittuvuudet/2008/tcp-vulnerabilities.html Broken Link
- http://blog.robertlee.name/2008/10/conjecture-speculation.html Broken Link
- http://insecure.org/stf/tcp-dos-attack-explained.html Broken Link
- http://lists.immunitysec.com/pipermail/dailydave/2008-October/005360.html Broken Link
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=125856010926699&w=2 Third Party Advisory
- http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com.au/articles/27154-TCP-is-fundamentally-borked Broken Link
- http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/products_security_advisory09186a0080af511d.shtml Broken Link
- http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/products_security_response09186a0080a15120.html Broken Link
- http://www.cpni.gov.uk/Docs/tn-03-09-security-assessment-TCP.pdf Broken Link
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:150 Broken Link
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujul2012-392727.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.outpost24.com/news/news-2008-10-02.html Broken Link
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-251A.html Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2009/ms09-048 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6340 Broken Link
- https://www.cert.fi/haavoittuvuudet/2008/tcp-vulnerabilities.html Broken Link