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Assessment Title
Rule Text
The system must limit how many times unacknowledged TCP data is retransmitted.
Description
Discussion Text
In a SYN flood attack, the attacker sends a continuous stream of SYN packets to a server, and the server leaves the half-open connections open until it is overwhelmed and is no longer able to respond to legitimate requests.
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