Red Hat: CVE-2017-14106: Important: kernel security and bug fix update (Multiple Advisories)
5
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
09/01/2017
07/25/2018
10/25/2017
03/03/2021
Description
The tcp_disconnect function in net/ipv4/tcp.c in the Linux kernel before 4.12 allows local users to cause a denial of service (__tcp_select_window divide-by-zero error and system crash) by triggering a disconnect within a certain tcp_recvmsg code path.
Solution(s)
- redhat-upgrade-kernel
- redhat-upgrade-kernel-rt
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