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The vulnerability occurs in the so-called "initial sequence numbers," or ISN, computers use to reconstruct data sent over the Internet back into the original file.
According to the analysis completed by BindView, operating systems such as the Linux 2.2 kernel and the most recent version of OpenBSD create strong ISNs, while operating systems such as Windows 95, Windows 98, older versions of Windows NT, AIX and HPUX have relatively weak procedures for generating ISNs.
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