RFC 5927: ICMP Attacks against TCP

This document discusses the use of the Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) to perform a variety of attacks against the Transmission Control Protocol…

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Outgoing relationships (24 related RFCs)

Normative reference — RFC 2119: Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels
Normative reference — RFC 2460: Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification
Normative reference — RFC 791: Internet Protocol
Normative reference — RFC 793: Transmission Control Protocol
Normative reference — RFC 1122: Requirements for Internet Hosts - Communication Layers
Normative reference — RFC 1191: Path MTU discovery
Normative reference — RFC 792: Internet Control Message Protocol
Normative reference — RFC 1812: Requirements for IP Version 4 Routers
Normative reference — RFC 1981: Path MTU Discovery for IP version 6
Informative reference — RFC 2616: Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1
Informative reference — RFC 4271: A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4)
Informative reference — RFC 1321: The MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm
Informative reference — RFC 3168: The Addition of Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) to IP
Informative reference — RFC 5321: Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 5925: The TCP Authentication Option
Informative reference — RFC 5681: TCP Congestion Control
Informative reference — RFC 4821: Packetization Layer Path MTU Discovery
Informative reference — RFC 1323: TCP Extensions for High Performance
Informative reference — RFC 4953: Defending TCP Against Spoofing Attacks
Informative reference — RFC 2923: TCP Problems with Path MTU Discovery
Informative reference — RFC 3390: Increasing TCP's Initial Window
Informative reference — RFC 816: Fault isolation and recovery
Informative reference — RFC 5461: TCP's Reaction to Soft Errors
Informative reference — RFC 4907: Architectural Implications of Link Indications

Incoming relationships (11 related RFCs)

Normatively referenced by — RFC 7414: A Roadmap for Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) Specification Documents
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7514: Really Explicit Congestion Notification (RECN)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6733: Diameter Base Protocol
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6056: Recommendations for Transport-Protocol Port Randomization
Informatively referenced by — RFC 5961: Improving TCP's Robustness to Blind In-Window Attacks
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8900: IP Fragmentation Considered Fragile
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6633: Deprecation of ICMP Source Quench Messages
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6773: DCCP-UDP: A Datagram Congestion Control Protocol UDP Encapsulation for NAT Traversal
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9109: Network Time Protocol Version 4: Port Randomization
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6946: Processing of IPv6 "Atomic" Fragments
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9415: On the Generation of Transient Numeric Identifiers