CVE-2005-0740 Information

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.

Reference

http://secunia.com/advisories/13819 http://securitytracker.com/id?1012861 http://www.openbsd.org/errata35.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12250