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Feast day August 6

S SegmentSmack CVE-2018-5390
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Technical record

Disclosed on
August 6 2018
CVE
CVE-2018-5390
Product
Linux · Linux Kernel

Linux kernel versions 4.9+ can be forced to make very expensive calls to tcp_collapse_ofo_queue() and tcp_prune_ofo_queue() for every incoming packet which can lead to a denial of service.

Sources: spinics.net · kb.cert.org

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