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Sun Microsystems, Inc. Information for VU#222750

Date Notified08/12/2004
Date Modified04/22/2008 06:34:37 PM
Status SummaryVulnerable

Vendor Statement

Sun is only marginally impacted by the issues described in Gont's ICMP Internet Draft as existing TCP connections will not be dropped. There may be a performance impact but no more or less than flooding any link or system with garbage messages will cause performance problems. Sun is issuing Sun Alert 57746 to further describe Sun's specific impact and details which will be available here:

http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-57746-1

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