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CVE-2004-0986

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2005-03-01 · updated 2026-06-16

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.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 3.0
• Linux kernel: 2.0.2, 2.4.0, 2.4.1, 2.4.2, 2.4.3, 2.4.4 (+32)
• RedHat Fedora Core: core_3.0
• Suse Iptables: 1.2.11

References

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

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