CVE-2003-0857

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

The (1) ipq_read and (2) ipulog_read functions in iptables allow local users to cause a denial of service by sending spoofed messages as other users to the kernel netlink interface.

Find out more about CVE-2003-0857 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Not affected. Red Hat did not ship iptables-devel or anything else that used these vulnerable functions with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 or 3. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5 contained a backported patch to correct this issue.

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