CVE-2019-11478
SACK can cause extensive memory use via fragmented resend queue
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 5.3 Medium
- Published
- Jun 18, 2019
- Updated
- Sep 16, 2024
- Reserved
- Apr 23, 2019
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.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.0 | 5.3 Medium | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L | canonical |
Weaknesses
- CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
Linux kernelLinux |
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References
- VU#905115third-party-advisory
- RHSA-2019:1594vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2019:1602vendor-advisory
- [oss-security] 20190628 Re: linux-distros membership application - Microsoftmailing-list
- [oss-security] 20190706 Re: linux-distros membership application - Microsoftmailing-list
- [oss-security] 20190706 Re: linux-distros membership application - Microsoftmailing-list
- RHSA-2019:1699vendor-advisory
- 20190722 [SECURITY] [DSA 4484-1] linux security updatemailing-list
- [oss-security] 20191023 Membership application for linux-distros - VMwaremailing-list
- [oss-security] 20191029 Re: Membership application for linux-distros - VMwaremailing-list
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2020.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html
- https://github.com/Netflix/security-bulletins/blob/master/advisories/third-party/2019-001.md
- https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/KnowledgeBase/SACKPanic
- https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/tcpsack
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/153346/Kernel-Live-Patch-Security-Notice-LSN-0052-1.html
- https://kb.pulsesecure.net/articles/Pulse_Security_Advisories/SA44193
- https://www.synology.com/security/advisory/Synology_SA_19_28
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190625-0001/
- https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10287
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2019-0010.html
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-462066.pdf
- https://www.us-cert.gov/ics/advisories/icsa-19-253-03
- 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
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net.git/commit/?id=f070ef2ac66716357066b683fb0baf55f8191a2e
- https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K26618426
- https://psirt.global.sonicwall.com/vuln-detail/SNWLID-2019-0007
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154408/Kernel-Live-Patch-Security-Notice-LSN-0055-1.html
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