Vulnerabilities > CVE-2001-1387 - Information Exposure Through Discrepancy vulnerability in Netfilter Iptables

047910
CVSS 0.0 - NONE
Attack vector
UNKNOWN
Attack complexity
UNKNOWN
Privileges required
UNKNOWN
Confidentiality impact
UNKNOWN
Integrity impact
UNKNOWN
Availability impact
UNKNOWN

Summary

iptables-save in iptables before 1.2.4 records the "--reject-with icmp-host-prohibited" rule as "--reject-with tcp-reset," which causes iptables to generate different responses than specified by the administrator, possibly leading to an information leak.

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Redhat

advisories
rhsa
idRHSA-2001:144