Network 0.0.0.0 in IPS alerts

Good afternoon:
I have a Cisco IPS 4240 sensor. This appliance is generating alerts with the network 0.0.0.0 as attacker and victim.
Example:
Severity informational
Application Name sensorApp
Event Time 02/20/2009 12:26:19
Sensor Local Time 01/20/2009 12:26:19
Signature ID 1330
Signature Sub-ID 16
Signature Name TCP Drop - PAWS check failed
Signature Version S248
Signature Details TCP Packet segment failed PAWS check
Attacker IP 0.0.0.0
Target IP 0.0.0.0
Target Port 0
Target Locality OUT
Someone can tell me. What can say this.
Thank's in advanced.

This generally happens when in Summary Mode the alerts
are coming from a large number of Attacker or are directed to large number of Victim IPs.
So instead of trying to show perhaps thousands of IPs in the attacker and/or victim address fields, the field will be populated with only 0.0.0.0.
If you want to see an alert for each time it is triggered, you
can reconfigure the signature and set it to FireAll mode with no Summary
Threshold.
Syed

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