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CVE-2002-2254 — LOW severity vulnerability (The experimental IP packet queuing feature in Netfilter / IP)

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

CVE IDCVE-2002-2254
SeverityLOW
CVSS score2.1
CVSS vectorAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
CWECWE-264
StatusModified
Published2002-12-31
Last modified2026-04-16
DescriptionThe 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.
SourceNIST National Vulnerability Database

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