vulnerability

Oracle Linux: CVE-2019-18805: ELSA-2020-1769: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update (IMPORTANT)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Apr 16, 2019
Added
Oct 5, 2022
Modified
Dec 3, 2025

Description

An issue was discovered in net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c in the Linux kernel before 5.0.11. There is a net/ipv4/tcp_input.c signed integer overflow in tcp_ack_update_rtt() when userspace writes a very large integer to /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_min_rtt_wlen, leading to a denial of service or possibly unspecified other impact, aka CID-19fad20d15a6.
A flaw was reported in the Linux kernel's TCP subsystem while calculating a packet round trip time, when a sysctl parameter (/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_min_rtt_wlen) is set incorrectly. This causes an integer overflow which can lead to a denial Of service (DOS) attack.

Solution

oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel
Title
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