7.5high

CVE-1999-10181 exploit

IPChains in Linux kernels 2.2.10 and earlier does not reassemble IP fragments before checking the header information, which allows a remote…

Published 27 y ago · modified 4 mo ago · JSON

CVSS
7.5
v2.0 · NVD
CISA KEV
No
not known exploited
EPSS
7.2%
percentile 94%
Public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

IPChains in Linux kernels 2.2.10 and earlier does not reassemble IP fragments before checking the header information, which allows a remote attacker to bypass the filtering rules using several fragments with 0 offsets.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

7.22% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 94% of all scored CVEs.

Exploits and detections

  • EDB-19301 Linux Kernel 2.0.33 - IP Fragment Overlap · dos · 1998-04-17

CVSS scores

Assigned byVersionScoreVector
NVD2.07.5AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Technology feeds
Linux kernel (RSS, critical only)

References

  • securityfocus.com /bid/543 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, x_transferred
  • marc.info /?l=bugtraq&m=93312523904591&w=2 · mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ, x_transferred

Sources

vulnwire keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA; records that alias each other are merged. Machine-readable: JSON.