CVEvulnerability

CVE-2007-1497

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2007-03-16 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2007-03-16
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Description

nf_conntrack in netfilter in the Linux kernel before 2.6.20.3 does not set nfctinfo during reassembly of fragmented packets, which leaves the default value as IP_CT_ESTABLISHED and might allow remote attackers to bypass certain rulesets using IPv6 fragments.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (<= 2.6.20.2)

References