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Jabbles on Nov 11, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: TCP is harder than it looks

Is there a history of these compatibility workarounds being the source of security bugs(e.g. DoS)?

zwp on Nov 11, 2014 [–]

Yes. See, for example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_tree_packet

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ping_of_death

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