CVE-2017-5972

2017-02-1406:30:00

mitre

www.cve.org

AI Score

7.3

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.036

Percentile

91.7%

JSON

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. NOTE: third parties have been unable to discern any relationship between the GitHub Engineering finding and the Trigemini.c attack code.