Jonathan Looney discovered that the Linux kernel default MSS is hard-coded to 48 bytes. This allows a remote peer to fragment TCP resend queues significantly more than if a larger MSS were enforced. 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 commits 967c05aee439e6e5d7d805e195b3a20ef5c433d6 and 5f3e2bf008c2221478101ee72f5cb4654b9fc363.
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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: canonical
Published: 2019-06-17T00:00:00
Updated: 2020-10-20T21:14:56
Reserved: 2019-04-23T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2019-11479
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NVD Information
Status : Modified
Published: 2019-06-19T00:15:12.767
Modified: 2023-11-07T03:03:02.020
Link: CVE-2019-11479
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