Various TCP/IP stacks and network applications allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service by flooding a target host with TCP connection attempts and completing the TCP/IP handshake without maintaining the connection state on the attacker host, aka the "NAPTHA" class of vulnerabilities. NOTE: this candidate may change significantly as the security community discusses the technical nature of NAPTHA and learns more about the affected applications. This candidate is at a higher level of abstraction than is typical for CVE.
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2000-12-19T05:00:00
Updated: 2024-08-08T05:37:32.202Z
Reserved: 2000-11-28T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2000-1039
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2001-01-09T05:00:00.000
Modified: 2024-11-20T23:33:52.423
Link: CVE-2000-1039
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