Denial of Service and Firewall Bypass Vulnerability in Linux Netfilter/Iptables Module

CVE-2005-0449

The netfilter/iptables module in Linux before 2.6.8.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (kernel crash) or bypass firewall rules via crafted packets, which are not properly handled by the skb_checksum_help function.

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