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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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2000-12-19T05:00:00

Updated: 2018-10-12T19:57:01

Reserved: 2000-11-28T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2000-1039

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Modified

Published: 2001-01-09T05:00:00.000

Modified: 2018-10-12T21:29:55.047


Link: CVE-2000-1039

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