CVE-2017-5972 Information

Description

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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q1/573 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96231 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2017-5972 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1422081 https://cxsecurity.com/issue/WLB-2017020112 https://githubengineering.com/syn-flood-mitigation-with-synsanity/ https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/141083/CentOS7-Kernel-Denial-Of-Service.html https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-5972 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/41350/

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.5