CVE-2002-2254

medium

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.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/10756

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6305

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2002-12/0025.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2002-12-31

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 2.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00082