Oval Definition:	oval:com.ubuntu.cosmic:def:20175972000
Revision Date: 2017-02-14 Version: 1 Title: CVE-2017-5972 on Ubuntu 18.10 (cosmic) - low. 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. Family: unix Class: vulnerability Status: Reference(s): CVE-2017-5972 Platform(s): Ubuntu 18.10 Product(s): Definition Synopsis Ubuntu 18.10 (cosmic) is installed. AND Package Information NOT While related to the CVE in some way, the 'linux' package in cosmic is not affected (note: '4.15.0-20.21'). OR NOT While related to the CVE in some way, the 'linux-aws' package in cosmic is not affected (note: '4.15.0-1007.7'). OR NOT While related to the CVE in some way, the 'linux-azure' package in cosmic is not affected (note: '4.15.0-1009.9'). OR NOT While related to the CVE in some way, the 'linux-gcp' package in cosmic is not affected (note: '4.15.0-1006.6'). OR NOT While related to the CVE in some way, the 'linux-kvm' package in cosmic is not affected (note: '4.15.0-1008.8'). OR NOT While related to the CVE in some way, the 'linux-oem' package in cosmic is not affected (note: '4.15.0-1004.5'). OR NOT While related to the CVE in some way, the 'linux-oracle' package in cosmic is not affected (note: '4.15.0-1007.9'). OR NOT While related to the CVE in some way, the 'linux-raspi2' package in cosmic is not affected (note: '4.15.0-1010.11').
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