Vulnerabilities in long-lived TCP connections on SGI systems
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SGI Security Advisory
Title : Vulnerabilities in long-lived TCP connections
Number : 20040403-01-A
Date : April 21, 2004
Reference : NISCC Vulnerability Advisory 236929
Reference : CERT Technical Cyber Security Alert TA04-111A
Reference : CVE CAN-2004-0230
Reference : SGI BUG 913287
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SGI acknowledges the TCP vulnerabilities reported by NISCC and US CERT:
http://www.uniras.gov.uk/vuls/2004/236929/index.htm
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA04-111A.html
This issue was assigned the following CVE:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-0230
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