CVE-2001-1540: David F. Mischler Iproute

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IPRoute 0.973, 0.974 and 1.18 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via fragmented IP packets that split the TCP header.

Affected products

• David F. Mischler Iproute: version 0.973 only; version 0.974 only; version 1.18 only

Published 2001-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.