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Red Hat: CVE-2018-5390: Important: kernel security and bug fix update (Multiple Advisories)

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Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Aug 6, 2018
Added
Aug 15, 2018
Modified
Feb 19, 2026

Description

Linux kernel versions 4.9+ can be forced to make very expensive calls to tcp_collapse_ofo_queue() and tcp_prune_ofo_queue() for every incoming packet which can lead to a denial of service.

Solutions

redhat-upgrade-kernelredhat-upgrade-kernel-rt

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