CVE
- Id
- 102792
- CVE No.
- CVE-2017-5972
- Status
- Candidate
- 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.
- Phase
- Assigned (20170212)
- Votes
- None (candidate not yet proposed)
- Comments