Re: Linux TCP implementation vulnerable to Denial of Service (CVE 2018-5390)

[Dave Horsfall <dave () horsfall org>]

On Thu, 9 Aug 2018, Stiepan wrote:

> Could you please provide some more details on the issue? About the same 
> period, our secure e-mail provider suffered an unprecedented DDoS with 
> some e-mail messages never reaching us.

Would this be the well-known TCP re-assembly bug?  Send lots of small 
packets (say out of order), and the CPU spends most of its time in glueing 
them back together.

-- Dave