CVE-2019-11478 - CVE House

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Status published Medium CVE-2019-11478

SACK can cause extensive memory use via fragmented resend queue

5.3 CVSS

Vulnerability 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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

Jonathan Looney from Netflix

References

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Affected Vendor

Linux

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Affected Software

Linux kernel

Vulnerable Versions:

4.4, 4.9, 4.14, 4.19, 5.1

Timeline

Official Publish: June 18th, 2019

Last Modified: September 16th, 2024

Added to House: July 20th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Weaknesses (CWE)

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1499 Endpoint Denial of Service

T1498 Network Denial of Service

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application

T1562 Impair Defenses

Defense Evasion

T1046 Network Service Discovery