CVE-2017-5972

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...

CVE-2017-6444: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

The MikroTik Router hAP Lite 6.25 has no protection mechanism for unsolicited TCP ACK packets in the case of a fast network connection, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service CPU consumption by sending many ACK packets. After the attacker stops the exploit, the CPU usage is 10...