If we have only seen the SYN and SYN/ACK of the 3whs, accept from
server data if it perfectly matches the SEQ/ACK expectations. This
might happen in 2 scenarios:
1. packet loss: if we lost the final ACK, we may get data that fits
this pattern (e.g. a SMTP EHLO message).
2. MOTS/MITM packet injection: an attacker can send a data packet
together with its SYN/ACK packet. The client due to timing almost
certainly gets the SYN/ACK before considering the data packet,
and will respond with the final ACK before processing the data
packet.
In IDS mode we will accept the data packet and rely on the reassembly
engine to warn us if the packet was indeed injected.
In IPS mode we will drop the packet. In the packet loss case we will
rely on retransmissions to get the session back up and running. For
the injection case we blocked this injection attempt.