The vulnerability of the netfilter component in the Linux operating system’s kernel allows a hacker to trigger a service failure.

The vulnerability of the netfilter component in the Linux operating system’s kernel is related to a memory leak in the doreplacefinish function. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker to cause a service failure...

SUSE CVE-2006-0038

Integer overflow in the doreplace function in netfilter for Linux before 2.6.16-rc3, when using "virtualization solutions" such as OpenVZ, allows local users with CAPNETADMIN rights to cause a buffer overflow in the copyfromuser function...

kernel: ebtables stack infoleak

The doreplace function in net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39 does not ensure that a certain name field ends with a '\0' character, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory by leveraging the CAPNETADMIN capability ...