CVE-2004-0986 - Applied Alligator

Description

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.

Reference

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11570 http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-580 https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=2252 http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/p-026.shtml http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/suse/updates/9.2/i386/rpm/i586/iptables-1.2.11-4.2.i586.html http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2004:125 https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-81-1/ https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17928