Medium · published March 18, 2026
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
tcp: secure_seq: add back ports to TS offset
This reverts 28ee1b746f49 ("secure_seq: downgrade to per-host timestamp offsets")
tcp_tw_recycle went away in 2017.
Zhouyan Deng reported off-path TCP source port leakage via
SYN cookie side-channel that can be fixed in multiple ways.
One of them is to bring back TCP ports in TS offset randomization.
As a bonus, we perform a single siphash() computation
to provide both an ISN and a TS offset.
| Product | Versions | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| linux/linux_kernel | > 4.11, < 6.18.17 | 6.18.17 |
| linux/linux_kernel | ≥ 6.19, < 6.19.7 | 6.19.7 |
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