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CVE-2002-2254

LOW CVSS: 2.1 Published: 2002-12-31 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

The experimental IP packet queuing feature in Netfilter / IPTables in Linux kernel 2.4 up to 2.4.19 and 2.5 up to 2.5.31, when a privileged process exits and network traffic is not being queued, may allow a later process with the same Process ID (PID) to access certain network traffic that would otherwise be restricted.

Affected Platforms

Linux Linux Kernel

Weakness Type

CWE-264

References