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The SynAttackProtect protection in Microsoft Windows 2003 before SP1 and Windows 2000 before SP4 with Update Roll-up uses a hash of predictable data, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a flood of SYN packets that produce identical hash values, which slows down the hash table lookups

Published Dec 1, 2005

Description

The SynAttackProtect protection in Microsoft Windows 2003 before SP1 and Windows 2000 before SP4 with Update Roll-up uses a hash of predictable data, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a flood of SYN packets that produce identical hash values, which slows down the hash table lookups.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

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No CWE recorded.

References (2)

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Dec 1, 2005
Updated Aug 7, 2024
Reserved Dec 1, 2005
Link CVE-2005-3945
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated n/a
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 16, 2026
Link CVE-2005-3945
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a
Links CVE-2005-3945