Upstream information

CVE-2002-2438 at MITRE

Description

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 5
Vector AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial
CVSS v3 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 7.5
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact High
CVSSv3 Version 3.1

Note from the SUSE Security Team

This security issue was fixed in Linux kernel 2.4.20 and remains fixed in current kernels. None of our products are affected by this problem.

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 744994 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

No SUSE Security Announcements cross referenced.


SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 04:42:07 2013
CVE page last modified: Mon Feb 13 11:20:52 2023