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Thomas Herbert's book The Linux TCP/IP Stack: Networking for Embedded Systems is a thorough guided tour of the Linux kernel TCP/IP implementation. Herbert builds his description of Linux networking, ...
Netflix discovers multiple 'critical' security flaws in the Linux and FreeBSD kernels' TCP stack that could lead to server outages. Written by Liam Tung, Contributing Writer June 18, 2019 at 5:03 ...
Linux desktop and server users are advised to upgrade the latest version after the USENIX Security Symposium was told this week of a weakness in the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) of all ...
What started as an attempt to secure TCP/IP in Linux ended up enabling an attack vector that can be used to break, or even hijack, internet connections between Linux and Android systems.
Both bugs affect the Linux kernel's TCP stack and are known to trigger excessive resource usage in Linux-based systems. Exploiting both bugs requires sending malformed TCP or IP packets, ...
A serious vulnerability in the TCP implementation in Linux systems deployed since 2012 (version 3.6 of the Linux kernel) can be used by attackers to identify hosts communicating over the protocol ...
A patch to fix a weakness in the transmission control protocol used in the Linux kernel since 2012, which could lead to remote hijacking of Internet connections, is available in the public stable ...
Researchers at the University of California, Riverside, say they have found a weakness in the transmission control protocol (TCP) used by Linux since late 2012 which allows the remote hijacking of ...
The flaw has been present in the TCP implementation in Linux systems since 2012 (version 3.6 of the kernel), and according to researchers at mobile security company Lookout, 80 percent of Android ...
Jack Wallen shows you how to use Google's much improved TCP Congestion Control Algorithm on Linux for significant networking speed gains.