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Tracker / CVE-2016-5696

CVE-2016-5696

Medium 4.8

net/ipv4/tcp_input.c in the Linux kernel before 4.7 does not properly determine the rate of challenge ACK segments, which makes it easier for remote attackers to hijack TCP sessions via a blind in-window attack.

Affected products and versions

google android · … → 7.0
linux linux_kernel · … → 4.6.6
oracle vm_server

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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