[ale] Linux TCP Flaw

[Lightner, Jeffrey]

https://thehackernews.com/2016/08/linux-tcp-packet-hacking.html

Other stories related to this last night.

My read last night was Disturbing because it says it can be used to disrupt even ssh/sftp/https connections.

Although it says it is in the 3.6 kernel and later it appears some earlier kernels for RedHat (and therefore CentOS and other derivatives) are affected.    RedHat says all RHEL6.5 and above and RHEL 7.   Earlier versions they say are not affected.

There is a mitigation in the story which is the same being suggested by RedHat.

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