{"draft":"draft-ietf-tcpm-icmp-attacks-12","doc_id":"RFC5927","title":"ICMP Attacks against TCP","authors":["F. Gont"],"format":["ASCII","HTML"],"page_count":"36","pub_status":"INFORMATIONAL","status":"INFORMATIONAL","source":"TCP Maintenance and Minor Extensions","abstract":"This document discusses the use of the Internet Control Message\r\nProtocol (ICMP) to perform a variety of attacks against the\r\nTransmission Control Protocol (TCP).  Additionally, this document\r\ndescribes a number of widely implemented modifications to TCP's\r\nhandling of ICMP error messages that help to mitigate these issues. \r\nThis document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is\r\npublished for informational purposes.","pub_date":"July 2010","keywords":["vulnerability","blind attacks","connection-reset attack","performance-degrading attack","throughput-reduction attack","source quench","PMTUD","Path-MTU Discovery","ICMP Destination Unreachable"],"obsoletes":[],"obsoleted_by":[],"updates":[],"updated_by":[],"see_also":[],"doi":"10.17487\/RFC5927","errata_url":null}