Handling of TCP ACK throttling
draft-lvelvindron-ack-throttling-03
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| Author | Loganaden Velvindron | ||
| Last updated | 2019-03-25 (Latest revision 2018-09-11) | ||
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| Consensus boilerplate | Unknown | ||
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| IESG | IESG state | Expired | |
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Abstract
The functionality provided by the TCP ACK throttling mechanism can be exploited as a side channel vulnerablity to terminate connections between two arbitrary hosts and inject data in the communication stream.
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