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Linux TCP bug lets attackers remotely hijack web traffic

Researchers from the University of California, Riverside (UCR) have identified the vulnerability as CVE-2016-5696. It is considered as a “subtle flaw” available in the form of ‘side channels’ in Linux operating system since late 2012. The flaw can enable attackers to infer the TCP sequence numbers associated with a particular connection to track users’ online activity as well as terminate existing connections and even inject false material during a communication.

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Linux TCP bug lets attackers remotely hijack web traffic was originally published on iSeeTech

Linux TCP bug lets attackers remotely hijack web traffic was originally published on iSeeTech

Linux TCP bug lets attackers remotely hijack web traffic was originally published on iSeeTech

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