{
  "draft": "draft-ietf-tcpm-icmp-attacks-12",
  "doc_id": "RFC5927",
  "title": "ICMP Attacks against TCP",
  "authors": [
    "F. Gont"
  ],
  "format": [
    "TEXT",
    "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 Protocol (ICMP) to perform a variety of attacks against the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP).  Additionally, this document describes a number of widely implemented modifications to TCP's handling of ICMP error messages that help to mitigate these issues.  This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is published 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": "https://www.rfc-editor.org/errata/rfc5927"
}