CVSS 3.1
7.5 highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCVE-2019-11479
High (7.5). EPSS 92% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Jonathan Looney discovered that the Linux kernel default MSS is hard-coded to 48 bytes. This allows a remote peer to fragment TCP resend queues significantly more than if a larger MSS were enforced. A remote attacker could use this to cause a denial of service. This has been fixed in stable kernel releases 4.4.182, 4.9.182, 4.14.127, 4.19.52, 5.1.11, and is fixed in commits 967c05aee439e6e5d7d805e195b3a20ef5c433d6 and 5f3e2bf008c2221478101ee72f5cb4654b9fc363.
Severity
- EPSS
- 92% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 99% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWEs
- CWE-770, CWE-405
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- canonical:ubuntu_linux
- f5:big-ip_access_policy_manager
- f5:big-ip_advanced_firewall_manager
- f5:big-ip_analytics
- f5:big-ip_application_acceleration_manager
- f5:big-ip_application_security_manager
- f5:big-ip_domain_name_system
- f5:big-ip_edge_gateway
- f5:big-ip_fraud_protection_service
- f5:big-ip_global_traffic_manager
- f5:big-ip_link_controller
- f5:big-ip_local_traffic_manager
- f5:big-ip_policy_enforcement_manager
- f5:big-ip_webaccelerator
- f5:big-iq_centralized_management
- f5:enterprise_manager
- f5:iworkflow
- f5:traffix_signaling_delivery_controller
- linux:linux_kernel
- redhat:enterprise_linux
- redhat:virtualization_host