Re: [PATCH net 0/4] tcp: make sack processing more robust

2019-06-17 Thread David Miller
From: Eric Dumazet Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2019 10:03:50 -0700 > Jonathan Looney brought to our attention multiple problems > in TCP stack at the sender side. > > SACK processing can be abused by malicious peers to either > cause overflows, or increase of memory usage. > > First two patches fix the i

[PATCH net 0/4] tcp: make sack processing more robust

2019-06-17 Thread Eric Dumazet
Jonathan Looney brought to our attention multiple problems in TCP stack at the sender side. SACK processing can be abused by malicious peers to either cause overflows, or increase of memory usage. First two patches fix the immediate problems. Since the malicious peers abuse senders by advertizin