suse · CVE-2016-5696

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Priority: medium Published: 2021-05-30 13:44:05 UTC Updated: 2025-05-17 23:56:56 UTC

View at Official suse advisory, NVD, CVE.org · CVE detail

Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2016-5696 severity moderate: SUSE including 159 source package names (kernel-bigmem-3.0.101-94.1, kernel-bigmem-base-3.0.101-94.1, …), 548 product×package rows across 87 product lines (HPE Helion OpenStack 8, SUSE CaaS Platform 4.0, … (87 product lines)): Fixed 290, Known Not Affected 258.

Description:

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.

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