CVE-2002-2438

TCP firewalls could be circumvented by sending a SYN Packets with other flags (like e.g. RST flag) set, which was not correctly discarded by the Linux TCP stack after firewalling.

Published: May 18, 2021
Updated: Apr 13, 2023
CVE: CVE-2002-2438
Severity: High
Exploit:

CVSS v3:

Severity: High
Score: 7.5
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v2:

Severity: Medium
Score: 5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CWEs:

CWE-287

OWASP TOP 10:

A2 - Broken Authentication

Affected Software
References

Software	From	Fixed in
linux / linux_kernel	-	2.4.20

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/02/03/7
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/29/8
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/30/11
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/30/12
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/30/13
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/30/2
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/30/4
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/30/8
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/30/9
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/31/3
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/02/12/8
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=744994%2C
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210727-0003/
https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/464113
https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/464113%2C
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/02/03/7

Vulnerability Database

289,871

CVE-2002-2438