{"id":17284,"date":"2019-06-18T15:51:20","date_gmt":"2019-06-18T20:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=17284"},"modified":"2019-06-18T15:51:20","modified_gmt":"2019-06-18T20:51:20","slug":"linux-pcs-servers-gadgets-can-be-crashed-by-ping-of-death-network-packets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=17284","title":{"rendered":"Linux PCs, servers, gadgets can be crashed by &#8216;Ping of Death&#8217; network packets"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>With CVE-2019-11477, a string of TCP SACK responses will cause the Linux kernel to unexpectedly hit an internal data structure limit, triggering a fatal panic. The others affecting Linux will force the system to consume resources, thus slowing it down, as Red Hat explained in <a href=\"https:\/\/access.redhat.com\/security\/vulnerabilities\/tcpsack\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">its technical summary<\/a> today.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2019\/06\/17\/linux_tcp_sack_kernel_crash\/\">Sad SACK: Linux PCs, servers, gadgets can be crashed by &#8216;Ping of Death&#8217; network packets \u2022 The Register<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With CVE-2019-11477, a string of TCP SACK responses will cause the Linux kernel to unexpectedly hit an internal data structure limit, triggering a fatal panic. The others affecting Linux will force the system to consume resources, thus slowing it down, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=17284\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[942,61,327],"class_list":["post-17284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-networking","tag-bugs","tag-linux","tag-tcp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17285,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17284\/revisions\/17285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}