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.
Published: 2017-02-14
Score: 7.5 High
EPSS: 18.9% Moderate
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Linux Linux Kernel
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T15:18:49.182Z

Reserved: 2017-02-12T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-5972

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Status : Modified

Published: 2017-02-14T06:59:00.277

Modified: 2026-05-13T00:24:29.033

Link: CVE-2017-5972

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Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2017-02-12T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-5972 - Bugzilla

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