TCP SYN-ACK and Challenge TCP-ACK Disclosure Vulnerability in FreeBSD 12.1 and 11.3

TCP SYN-ACK and Challenge TCP-ACK Disclosure Vulnerability in FreeBSD 12.1 and 11.3

CVE-2020-7451 · MEDIUM Severity

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

In FreeBSD 12.1-STABLE before r358739, 12.1-RELEASE before 12.1-RELEASE-p3, 11.3-STABLE before r358740, and 11.3-RELEASE before 11.3-RELEASE-p7, a TCP SYN-ACK or challenge TCP-ACK segment over IPv6 that is transmitted or retransmitted does not properly initialize the Traffic Class field disclosing one byte of kernel memory over the network.

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