CVE-2005-0066 Information

Description

The original design of TCP does not check that the TCP Acknowledgement number in an ICMP error message generated by an intermediate router is within the range of possible values for data that has already been acknowledged (aka \TCP acknowledgement number checking) which makes it easier for attackers to forge ICMP error messages for specific TCP connections and cause a denial of service as demonstrated using (1) blind connection-reset attacks with forged \Destination Unreachable\ messages (2) blind throughput-reduction attacks with forged \Source Quench\ messages or (3) blind throughput-reduction attacks with forged ICMP messages that cause the Path MTU to be reduced. NOTE: CVE-2004-0790 CVE-2004-0791 and CVE-2004-1060 have been SPLIT based on different attacks; CVE-2005-0065 CVE-2005-0066 CVE-2005-0067 and CVE-2005-0068 are related identifiers that are SPLIT based on the underlying vulnerability. While CVE normally SPLITs based on vulnerability the attack-based identifiers exist due to the variety and number of affected implementations and solutions that address the attacks instead of the underlying vulnerabilities.

Reference

http://www.gont.com.ar/drafts/icmp-attacks-against-tcp.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13124