Ubuntu 4.10 : iptables vulnerability (USN-81-1)

Faheem Mitha noticed that the 'iptables' command did not always load the required modules on its own as it was supposed to. This could lead to firewall rules not being loaded on system startup. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubun...

DEBIAN-CVE-2004-0986

Iptables before 1.2.11, under certain conditions, does not properly load the required modules at system startup, which causes the firewall rules to fail to load and protect the system from remote attackers...