Vulnerability in Linux Kernel

CVE-1999-1018

IPChains in Linux kernels 2.2.10 and earlier does not reassemble IP fragments before checking the header information, which allows a remote attacker to bypass the filtering rules using several fragments with 0 offsets.

EPSS: 0.072 (93.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Linux Linux_kernel — versions 2.2.0
N/a — versions n/a

References

cve@mitre.org (Patch, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, Vendor Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)