Protection Against a Variant of the Tiny Fragment Attack (RFC 1858)
draft-miller-rfc1858-cmts-01

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        RFC 3128

        Title:      Protection Against a Variant of the Tiny Fragment
                    Attack
        Author(s):  I. Miller
        Status:     Informational
        Date:       June 2001
        Mailbox:    Ian_Miller@singularis.ltd.uk
        Pages:      5
        Characters: 8242
        Updates:    1858

        I-D Tag:    draft-miller-rfc1858-cmts-01.txt

        URL:        ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3128.txt

This document discusses how RFC 1858 compliant filters can be
vulnerable to a variant of the "Tiny Fragment Attack" described in
section 3.1 of the RFC.  This document describes the attack and
recommends corrective action.

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