TCP/IP

Pierluigi Paganini August 16, 2024
Microsoft urges customers to fix zero-click Windows RCE in the TCP/IP stack

Microsoft addressed a critical zero-click Windows remote code execution (RCE) in the TCP/IP stack that impacts all systems with IPv6 enabled. Microsoft urges customers to fix a critical TCP/IP remote code execution (RCE) flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-38063 (CVSS score 9.8), in the TCP/IP stack. The vulnerability impacts all systems with IPv6 enabled (IPv6 is enabled by […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 07, 2021
Possible attacks on the TCP/IP protocol stack and countermeasures

Let’s look at what types of threats each layer of the TCP/IP protocol stack may be susceptible to. The task of a computer security system is to safeguard the information transmitted over the network and to adequately preserve the data stored in it.  Excluding in this discussion threats due to natural disasters, we can classify […]