Vulnerability Details : CVE-2017-5972
The TCP stack in the Linux kernel 3.x does not properly implement a SYN cookie protection mechanism for the case of a fast network connection, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) by sending many TCP SYN packets, as demonstrated by an attack against the kernel-3.10.0 package in CentOS Linux 7. NOTE: third parties have been unable to discern any relationship between the GitHub Engineering finding and the Trigemini.c attack code.
Vulnerability category: Denial of service
Threat overview for CVE-2017-5972
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Top open port discovered on systems with this issue
49152
IPs affected by CVE-2017-5972 25,677
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Yes
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2017-5972
3.59%
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~ 90 %
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