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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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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