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CVE Reference: CVE-2005-0740
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CVE-2005-0740

Description:
The TCP stack (tcp_input.c) in OpenBSD 3.5 and 3.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system panic) via crafted values in the TCP timestamp option, which causes invalid arguments to be used when calculating the retransmit timeout.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

ST
  1012861

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA13819

OPENBSD
  http://www.openbsd.org/errata35.html

BID
  12250


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