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Re: TCP SYN packets which have the FIN flag set.



* Jan Minar:

>>    Is this a serious problem?
>
> Maybe.  It is a very serious bug.

Actually, it's a feature because some TCP extensions use SYN+FIN ("TCP
for Transactions" or something like that).

The real, nasty bug was in stacks that accepted SYN+RST as a regular
SYN, easily passing through to quite a few stateless packet filters.



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