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LOW

security flaw

Published Aug 31, 2002

Description

iptables-save in iptables before 1.2.4 records the "--reject-with icmp-host-prohibited" rule as "--reject-with tcp-reset," which causes iptables to generate different responses than specified by the administrator, possibly leading to an information leak.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

Weaknesses (1)

References (6)

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Aug 31, 2002
Updated Aug 8, 2024
Reserved Aug 27, 2002
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 16, 2026
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date Oct 30, 2001