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CVE-2019-11478 Detail

Description

Jonathan Looney discovered that the TCP retransmission queue implementation in tcp_fragment 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 releases 4.4.182, 4.9.182, 4.14.127, 4.19.52, 5.1.11, and is fixed in commit f070ef2ac66716357066b683fb0baf55f8191a2e.


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Hyperlink Resource
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/153346/Kernel-Live-Patch-Security-Notice-LSN-0052-1.html Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154408/Kernel-Live-Patch-Security-Notice-LSN-0055-1.html
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154951/Kernel-Live-Patch-Security-Notice-LSN-0058-1.html
http://www.arubanetworks.com/assets/alert/ARUBA-PSA-2020-010.txt
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/06/28/2
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/07/06/3
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/07/06/4
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/10/24/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/10/29/3
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2019-0010.html
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1594
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1602
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1699
https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/tcpsack Third Party Advisory 
https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-462066.pdf
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net.git/commit/?id=f070ef2ac66716357066b683fb0baf55f8191a2e Mailing List  Patch  Vendor Advisory 
https://github.com/Netflix/security-bulletins/blob/master/advisories/third-party/2019-001.md Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://kb.pulsesecure.net/articles/Pulse_Security_Advisories/SA44193 Third Party Advisory 
https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10287
https://psirt.global.sonicwall.com/vuln-detail/SNWLID-2019-0007
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Jul/30
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190625-0001/
https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K26618426 Third Party Advisory 
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/KnowledgeBase/SACKPanic Mitigation  Third Party Advisory 
https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/905115
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2020.html
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html
https://www.synology.com/security/advisory/Synology_SA_19_28
https://www.us-cert.gov/ics/advisories/icsa-19-253-03

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption cwe source acceptance level NIST  
CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Canonical Ltd.  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2019-11478
NVD Published Date:
06/18/2019
NVD Last Modified:
02/27/2024
Source:
Canonical Ltd.