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CVE-2002-2254

• Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2002-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The experimental IP packet queuing feature in Netfilter / IPTables in Linux kernel 2.4 up to 2.4.19 and 2.5 up to 2.5.31, when a privileged process exits and network traffic is not being queued, may allow a later process with the same Process ID (PID) to access certain network traffic that would otherwise be restricted.

Affected products

• Linux kernel: 2.4.0, 2.4.0-test1, 2.4.0-test10, 2.4.0-test11, 2.4.0-test12, 2.4.0-test2 (+60)

References

• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2002-12/0025.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6305
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/10756
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2002-12/0025.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6305
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/10756

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