CVE-2019-11478

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.

References

• https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2019-3151
• https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/905115
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• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1602
• 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
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1699
• https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Jul/30
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/10/24/1
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• https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html
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• https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/KnowledgeBase/SACKPanic
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• 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
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• https://www.us-cert.gov/ics/advisories/icsa-19-253-03
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• 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