published May 31, 2005
NVD has not assigned a CVSS score to this record. It sits in the 99.7th percentile for exploit probability.
Multiple TCP implementations with Protection Against Wrapped Sequence Numbers (PAWS) with the timestamps option enabled allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (connection loss) via a spoofed packet with a large timer value, which causes the host to discard later packets because they appear to be too old.