Vulnerabilities > CVE-2003-0187 - Unspecified vulnerability in Linux Kernel 2.4.20
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
PARTIAL Summary
The connection tracking core of Netfilter for Linux 2.4.20, with CONFIG_IP_NF_CONNTRACK enabled or the ip_conntrack module loaded, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) due to an inconsistency with Linux 2.4.20's support of linked lists, which causes Netfilter to fail to identify connections with an UNCONFIRMED status and use large timeouts.
Vulnerable Configurations
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| OS | 1 |
Oval
| accepted | 2007-04-25T19:52:24.425-04:00 | ||||||||||||
| class | vulnerability | ||||||||||||
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| description | The connection tracking core of Netfilter for Linux 2.4.20, with CONFIG_IP_NF_CONNTRACK enabled or the ip_conntrack module loaded, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) due to an inconsistency with Linux 2.4.20's support of linked lists, which causes Netfilter to fail to identify connections with an UNCONFIRMED status and use large timeouts. | ||||||||||||
| family | unix | ||||||||||||
| id | oval:org.mitre.oval:def:260 | ||||||||||||
| status | accepted | ||||||||||||
| submitted | 2003-09-25T12:00:00.000-04:00 | ||||||||||||
| title | Netfilter Denial of Service | ||||||||||||
| version | 38 |