CVE detail
CVE-2019-8460
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.
Buzz score
Why this CVE is surfacing
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Buzz score components · mention 6.9 · diversity 5.0 · KEV 0.0 · OTX 0.0 · PoC 0.0
Why it matters now
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Evidence
Source links by recency
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- TCP SACK Security Issue in OpenBSD – CVE-2019-8460Check Point Research
Reuven Plevinsky and Tal Vainshtein Background Following the recent hype over the TCP networking vulnerabilities found by Netflix in Linux and FreeBSD, for which Check Point quickly responded and provided protection, we have researched several implementations of Selective ACK mechanism. One of these implementations was OpenBSD. OpenBSD is a free, open-source operating system based on […]
vendorresearch.checkpoint.comOct 22, 2019, 12:47 PM
Exploit code
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