CVEvulnerability

CVE-2002-2438

7.5 HIGH Published 2021-05-18 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2021-05-18
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-287

Description

TCP firewalls could be circumvented by sending a SYN Packets with other flags (like e.g. RST flag) set, which was not correctly discarded by the Linux TCP stack after firewalling.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (< 2.4.20)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-287 Improper Authentication weakness

References