Executive Summary

Summary
Title iptables vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-81-1 First vendor Publication 2005-02-11
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2005-02-11
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 7.5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases:

Ubuntu 4.10 (Warty Warthog)

The following packages are affected:

iptables

The problem can be corrected by upgrading the affected package to version 1.2.9-10ubuntu0.1. After a standard system upgrade you have to restart your firewall to ensure that the necessary changes take effect.

Details follow:

Faheem Mitha noticed that the "iptables" command did not always load the required modules on its own as it was supposed to. This could lead to firewall rules not being loaded on system startup.

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-81-1

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1
Os 12
Os 38
Os 1

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2008-01-17 Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 580-1 (iptables)
File : nvt/deb_580_1.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
11351 iptables Module Loading Failure

iptables contains a flaw that may allow a malicious user to bypass firewall rules. The issue is triggered when iptables fails to load required modules in iptables.c and ip6tables.c under certain configurations. It is possible that the flaw may prohibit the firewall rules from being applied without notifying the victim of the problem resulting in a loss of integrity.

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2006-01-15 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-81-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2004-11-10 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-580.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2004-11-05 Name : The remote Mandrake Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandrake_MDKSA-2004-125.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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