CVE-2019-8460

Description

OpenBSD kernel version <= 6.5 can be forced to create long chains of TCP SACK holes that causes very expensive calls to tcp_sack_option() for every incoming SACK packet which can lead to a denial of service.

References

https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ics/advisories/icsa-19-253-03

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190905-0001/

https://research.checkpoint.com/tcp-sack-security-issue-in-openbsd-cve-2019-8460/

https://github.com/openbsd/src/commit/ed8fdce754a5d8d14c09e989d8877707bd43906f

https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/6.5/common/006_tcpsack.patch.sig

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3