CVE-2012-2663

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Feb 15, 2014
Updated: Aug 6, 2024
Reserved: May 14, 2012

Description

extensions/libxt_tcp.c in iptables through 1.4.21 does not match TCP SYN+FIN packets in --syn rules, which might allow remote attackers to bypass intended firewall restrictions via crafted packets. NOTE: the CVE-2012-6638 fix makes this issue less relevant.

Scores

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

[netfilter-devel] 20120330 Re: `iptables -m tcp --syn` doesn't do what the man saysmailing-list
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=826702

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