CVE-2004-0986

Description

Iptables before 1.2.11, under certain conditions, does not properly load the required modules at system startup, which causes the firewall rules to fail to load and protect the system from remote attackers.

7.5

CVSS

Severity: High

CVSS 2.0 •

EPSS 1.27% Top 25%

Vendor Advisory fedora.us Vendor Advisory debian.org Vendor Advisory mandriva.com Vendor Advisory ubuntu.com Vendor Advisory securityfocus.com

Affected: n/a n/a

References

Link	Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11570	vdb entry patch vendor advisory
https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=2252	vendor advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-580	vendor advisory
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17928	vdb entry
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2004:125	vendor advisory
http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/p-026.shtml	third party advisory government resource
https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-81-1/	vendor advisory
http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/suse/updates/9.2/i386/rpm/i586/iptables-1.2.11-4.2.i586.html

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2004-0986?: CVE-2004-0986 has been scored as a high severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2004-0986?: To fix CVE-2004-0986, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2004-0986 being actively exploited in the wild?: It is possible that CVE-2004-0986 is being exploited or will be exploited in a near future based on public information. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~1% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.

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