Security Advisory

CVE-2017-5972

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2017-02-14 06:30:00

Last updated 2024-08-05 15:18:49

Assigner mitre

State PUBLISHED

Description

The TCP stack in the Linux kernel 3.x does not properly implement a SYN cookie protection mechanism for the case of a fast network connection, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) by sending many TCP SYN packets, as demonstrated by an attack against the kernel-3.10.0 package in CentOS Linux 7. NOTE: third parties have been unable to discern any relationship between the GitHub Engineering finding and the Trigemini.c attack code.

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