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Re: DSA for CVE-2016-5696 (off-path blind TCP session attack)



Hi Richard,

On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 02:41:29PM +0200, Richard van den Berg wrote:
> Dear Debian security team,
> 
> Will there be a DSA written for CVE-2016-5696 [1]? It looks pretty serious
> and I'd like to fix this on my systems ASAP.

Yes there will be a Linux DSA including the fix for CVE-2016-5696.
There is no timeline though yet, and mitigation could be used as per
https://lwn.net/Articles/696868/ .

Regards,
Salvatore


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