In context: Security researchers at Forescout and JSOF have uncovered a set of nine vulnerabilities within four commonly used TCP/IP stacks.However, Forescout created an open-source script to help administrators track down vulnerable IoT devices and servers on the network.
TCP provides error-checking and guarantees delivery of data and that packets will be delivered in the order they were sent. TCP has to establish a connection, error-check, and guarantee that files are received in the order they were sent.