K49405623: Linux vulnerability CVE-2002-2438

Security Advisory 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. CVE-2002-2438 Impact There is no impact; F5 products are not affected by this...

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...

CVE-2002-2438

firewalls might let some TCP flags combinations pass e.g. all with RST flag set and the OS e.g. Linux stack would in turn accept a TCP session it might not have accepted otherwise...

CVE-2002-2438

CVE-2002-2438 describes a TCP/IP flaw where Linux TCP stack could bypass firewalls by receiving SYN packets that include additional flags (e.g., SYN+RST). The vulnerability arises because such packets were not consistently discarded by some stacks after firewalling, allowing a potential connectio...