# SUSE addresses “SegmentSmack” attack

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**Created:** [August 6, 2018, 10:00pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/suse-addresses-a-segmentsmacka-attack/32781 "2018-08-06T22:00:20Z")\
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SUSE addresses “SegmentSmack” attack

Today, on August 6th 2018, researchers from FICORA have published a remote denial of service attack against Linux Servers, called “SegmentSmack” (CVE-2018-5390). Due to inefficient programming remote attackers could use a lot of compute resources by exploiting worst-case behaviour in the TCP segment reassembly code of newer Linux Kernels, which could allow even single attackers […]  
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