Bug 963594 (CVE-2001-0328)

Summary: CVE-2001-0328 kernel: TCP connection ISN hijacks
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: agordeev, davej, dhoward, esammons, fhrbata, gansalmon, iboverma, itamar, jforbes, jonathan, jrusnack, jwboyer, kernel-maint, kernel-mgr, lwang, madhu.chinakonda, mcressma, mrg-program-list, nobody, plougher, rvrbovsk
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Fixed In Version: kernel-2.6.32.45, kernel-2.6.33.18, kernel-3.0.2 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2013-05-16 08:23:39 UTC 
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2001-0328 to the following vulnerability:

TCP implementations that use random increments for initial sequence numbers (ISN) can allow remote attackers to perform session hijacking or disruption by injecting a flood of packets with a range of ISN values, one of which may match the expected ISN. 

References:
[1] ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20030201-01-P
[2] http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html
[3] http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:4922
[4] http://secunia.com/advisories/8044
[5] http://securityreason.com/securityalert/57

Further Linux kernel related references:
[6]  http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/9605.2/0101.html
[7]  http://lwn.net/Articles/455270/
[8]  http://lwn.net/Articles/455131/
[9]  http://lwn.net/Articles/455135/
[10] http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1948.txt
[11] http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network.general/1056
Comment 2 Jan Lieskovsky 2013-05-16 08:32:58 UTC 
Statement:

This issue did NOT affect the versions of the Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.