Jonathan Looney from Netflix

Integer overflow in TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->tcp_gso_segs

SACK can cause extensive memory use via fragmented resend queue

Jonathan Looney discovered that the Linux kernel default MSS is hard-coded to 48 bytes. This allows a remote peer to fragment TCP resend queues significantly more than if a larger MSS were enforced. A remote attacker could use this to cause a denial of se