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CVE-2003-0857

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2003-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

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.

Affected products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 2.1, 3.0

References

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=108574
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=108574

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