CVE-2019-11478

Jonathan Looney discovered that the TCP retransmission queue implementation in tcpfragment in the Linux kernel could be fragmented when handling certain TCP Selective Acknowledgment SACK sequences. A remote attacker could use this to cause a denial of service. This has been fixed in stable kernel...

[slackware-security] kernel

New kernel packages are available for Slackware 14.2 and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/linux-4.4.182/: Upgraded. These updates fix various bugs and many security issues, including the "SACK Panic" remote denial-of-service...

RHEL 6 : kernel (RHSA-2019:1488)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2019:1488 advisory. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fixes: An integer overflow flaw was found in...

RHEL 6 : kernel (RHSA-2019:1489)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2019:1489 advisory. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fixes: An integer overflow flaw was found in...

RHEL 7 : kernel (RHSA-2019:1482)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2019:1482 advisory. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fixes: An integer overflow flaw was found in...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2019:1536-1) (SACK Panic) (SACK Slowness)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP4 kernel was updated to 4.12.14 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : CVE-2019-11477: A sequence of SACKs may have been crafted such that one can trigger an integer overflow, leading to a kernel panic. CVE-2019-11479: An...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-4017-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2019 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2019:1534-1) (SACK Panic) (SACK Slowness)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP2 kernel version 4.4.121 was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : CVE-2019-11477: A sequence of SACKs may have been crafted by a remote attacker such that one can trigger an integer overflow, leading to a kernel...

Oracle Linux 5 / 6 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2019-4689)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 / 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2019-4689 advisory. - tcp: enforce tcpminsndmss in tcpmtuprobing Eric Dumazet Orabug: 29886601 CVE-2019-11477 - tcp: add tcpminsndmss sysctl Eric Dumazet Orabug:...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20190617) (SACK Panic) (SACK Slowness)

Security Fixes : - An integer overflow flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's networking subsystem processed TCP Selective Acknowledgment SACK segments. While processing SACK segments, the Linux kernel's socket buffer SKB data structure becomes fragmented. Each fragment is about TCP maximum...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL7.x x86_64 (20190617) (SACK Panic) (SACK Slowness)

Security Fixes : - An integer overflow flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's networking subsystem processed TCP Selective Acknowledgment SACK segments. While processing SACK segments, the Linux kernel's socket buffer SKB data structure becomes fragmented. Each fragment is about TCP maximum...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2019:1533-1) (SACK Panic) (SACK Slowness)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP1 kernel version 3.12.74 was updated to to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : CVE-2019-11477: A sequence of SACKs may have been crafted by a remote attacker such that one can trigger an integer overflow, leading to a kern...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2019:1527-1) (SACK Panic) (SACK Slowness)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP3 kernel was updated to 4.4.180 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : CVE-2019-11477: A sequence of SACKs may have been crafted such that one can trigger an integer overflow, leading to a kernel panic. bsc1137586...

Debian DLA-1823-1 : linux security update (SACK Panic) (SACK Slowness)

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service or information leaks. CVE-2019-3846, CVE-2019-10126 huangwen reported multiple buffer overflows in the Marvell wifi mwifiex driver, which a local user could use to cause...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2019:1530-1) (SACK Panic) (SACK Slowness)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP4 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : CVE-2019-11477: A sequence of SACKs may have been crafted such that one can trigger an integer overflow, leading to a kernel panic. CVE-2019-11478: It was possibl...

[ASA-201906-14] linux-lts: denial of service

Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-201906-14 ========================================== Severity: High Date : 2019-06-18 CVE-ID : CVE-2019-11477 CVE-2019-11478 CVE-2019-11479 Package : linux-lts Type : denial of service Remote : Yes Link : https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-984 Summary ======= The...

Linux / FreeBSD TCP-Based Denial Of Service Vulnerability

Netflix has identified several TCP networking vulnerabilities in FreeBSD and Linux kernels. The vulnerabilities specifically relate to the minimum segment size MSS and TCP Selective Acknowledgement SACK capabilities. The most serious, dubbed "SACK Panic," allows a remotely-triggered kernel panic ...

SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2019:1529-1) (SACK Panic) (SACK Slowness)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : CVE-2019-11477: A sequence of SACKs may have been crafted such that one can trigger an integer overflow, leading to a kernel panic. CVE-2019-11478: It was possible to...

Amazon Linux 2 : kernel (ALAS-2019-1222) (SACK Panic) (SACK Slowness)

CVE-2019-11477 , CVE-2019-11478 and CVE-2019-11479 describe vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel that can be remotely exploited using a specially crafted TCP connection, crashing the targeted system. The latest Amazon Linux 2 AMIs as available in AWS EC2 already contain these kernels and are not...

SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2019:1535-1) (SACK Panic) (SACK Slowness)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 Azure kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : CVE-2019-11477: A sequence of SACKs may have been crafted such that one can trigger an integer overflow, leading to a kernel panic. CVE-2019-11478: It was...