How severe is CVE-2017-5972?

This vulnerability has a severity rating of HIGH with a CVSS score of 7.5 out of 10.

What type of vulnerability is CVE-2017-5972?

This is classified as CWE-400, which is a common weakness in software security.

CVE-2017-5972 - HIGH Severity | CVSS 7.5

Vulnerability Description

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.

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