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Re:SACK Panic – Multiple TCP-based remote denial-of-service ... by Twirrim on Monday June 17, 2019 @03:39PM (#20206566)
Yes. In all seriousness, this is a "drop everything and patch" situation, as soon as the patches are available.

It's a little bit more involved than a ping of death, but still, relatively easy to exploit.

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Re:SACK Panic – Multiple TCP-based remote denial-of-service ... by jandrese on Monday June 17, 2019 @04:11PM (#20206834)
Seems like anybody with an open TCP port and SACK enabled (the default) is vulnerable.
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Re:SACK Panic – Multiple TCP-based remote denial-of-service ... by wademealing on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @02:58AM (#20210327)
and Generic Segment offloading.
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